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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20080427
Author:Michael Dirda
THE SEVERAL LIVES OF JOSEPH CONRAD
By John Stape
Pantheon. 369 pp. $30
Suppose you were asked to name the most studied classic of English fiction, that single work most often read in high school and college classrooms. What would you choose? My own guess would be Joseph Conrad's nightmare-vision of moral decay, Heart of Darkness. A hallucinatory account of a journey up the Congo River to a distant trading camp, a supposed "outpost of progress," this 1902 novella foretells the whole bloody history of the past century. It misses nothing: imperialism, racism and genocide, the squalid ...
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