My tenth-grader will soon be reading this novella. Although it is only 104 pages long and only took me a couple of days to read, it is a challenging read. I read in some literary commentary that Conrad intentionally made the language hard so the reader would feel like Marlow, fighting through the jungle to find Kurtz.
Marlow, the narrator, relates how he searches the Congo, interior Africa, for a man named Kurtz. His goal is to bring Kurtz provisions. Along the way, Marlow sees the ill-treatment of natives and the greed that is in the center of man. Is Kurtz really the hero everyone claims he is? Based on Conrad's own journey into the Congo.
-I own this book.
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