![]() ![]() ![]() I was not expecting this outlook when I started Heart of Darkness, I was expecting a dark adventure novel. In the 1880's Nietzsche declared "God is dead" but it took a while before novels began to explore this viewpoint. This is not at all explicit, but is subtly, yet distinctly, implicit. Conrad's writing of around 1900 is essentially modern and the earliest novels I have found in which "God is dead". Having now completed the four Conrad novels on that list (Nostromo, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, and The Heart of Darkness) I definitely enjoyed this version of the Heart of Darkness the most, yet I did not find any of these "must reads" except to gain, first hand, a historical perspective on modernist literature. I had not read any Conrad until recently, and was mildly surprised Conrad had four novels on Modern Library's Top 100 list (more than any other author). ![]()
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