Heart of Darkness (Penguin Popular Classics) [ペーパーバック]

Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz, dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities.

コッポラの「地獄の黙示録」の原作であると同時に、ポストコロニアリズム論にもしばしば登場する、二十世紀、英語圏諸国の大学で教材として最も多く使われた英文学屈指の名作、半世紀ぶりの新訳。原文対比の詳細な註釈、現代におけるこの小説の社会・思想的意味を鋭くえぐる小論考。本書をめぐる過去半世紀の膨大な研究・評論などを踏まえての緻密な2部構成の訳註、この小説がはらむ社会・思想的問いに焦点を絞った小論考「あとがき」にも注目。 --このテキストは、 単行本 版に関連付けられています。

世界の英語圏諸国の大学で、教材として、20世紀で最も多く使用されたコンラッドの代表作。過去半世紀の膨大な研究・評論などを踏まえた2部構成の訳註、社会・思想的問いに焦点を絞った小論考「あとがき」を収録した新訳。 --このテキストは、 単行本 版に関連付けられています。

First published in 1902, Conrad's story describes intensely and in stark detail how greed can so easily drive civilised and enlightened men to revert to primitive savagery. Set against the background of the European ivory trade in Africa, Heart Of Darkness is narrator Marlow's account of his journey in search of the legendary and mystical Kurtz, the most successful trader of them all, who is now reported to be ill. Marlow's quest becomes both a harrowing journey of self-discovery and haunting description of the brutality of colonial exploitation; while Kurtz himself is one of the most memorable creations in modern fiction.
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This book is in Electronic Paperback Format. If you view this book on any of the computer systems below, it will look like a book. Simple to run, no program to install. Just put the CD in your CDROM drive and start reading. The simple easy to use interface is child tested at pre-school levels.

Windows 3.11, Windows/95, Windows/98, OS/2 and MacIntosh and Linux with Windows Emulation.

Includes Quiet Vision's Dynamic Index. the abilty to build a index for any set of characters or words.
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This is Conrad's most subtle, compressed and proleptic work. Acclaimed as a supreme literary achievement, it has also come under literary, historical, and political attack. The profoundly influential novel journeys toward the settlement of the demonic Mr. Kurtz, the genius who would represent the best of Europe-but who, turned by the colonial experience to abuses both psychological and social, horrifies his investigator Marlow and commits him to witness the repulsive profundity of his own soul and times.
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Joseph Conrad was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1874 Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.

コンラッド,ジョセフ
1857‐1924。ポーランド出身のイギリスの作家

藤永 茂
1926年満州国長春生れ。九州大学理学部物理学科卒。1968年からカナダのアルバータ大学教授、現在同名誉教授(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです) --このテキストは、 単行本 版に関連付けられています。