Based Conrad

[Anonymous No.6551004]

Any of you bastards read his works? Opinions on Heart of Darkness?

[Stefan Burnett No.6551006]

>>6551004
It was assigned reading.
I didn't read it.

[Anonymous No.6551010]

based conrad?

never heard of that book

[Anonymous No.6551011]

>>6551006
Savage

[Anonymous No.6551012]

>>6551004
The movie was better.

[Anonymous No.6551076]

>>6551012
pleb

[Anonymous No.6551089]

>>6551011

[Anonymous No.6551094]

Nearly finished Under Western Eyes, this could almost be described as a Russian novel written in English. I have Victory and Nostromo lined up in the future, and will probably re-read The Secret Agent. Any more of his novels worth reading?

[Anonymous No.6551107]

>>6551094
I would read his short stories, of the few I've read they have been quite interesting and good

[Anonymous No.6551117]

>>6551004
Heart of Darkness was the shit.

Anyone who says otherwise probably hates Fitzgerald and thinks Aristotle holds intellectual merit.

[Anonymous No.6551119]

>>6551004
very good book that goes for a slightly too simple conclusion, owing to the fact that it was about, of all colonies, the Congo. it would be hard to take an unsimple view on rapaciousness of that magnitude. yet the Congo is a real thing that really happened, so Heart of Darkness has every right to be as it is.

[Anonymous No.6551148]

>>6551117
>thinks Aristotle holds intellectual merit
relax john green

[Anonymous No.6551157]

>The horror! The horror!

What did he mean, /lit/?

Also, Spec Ops: The Line was better than HoD and Apocalypse combined.

[Anonymous No.6551168]

>>6551157
The horror of realization, recognizing and understanding what he had become.

[Anonymous No.6551187]

>>6551117
I'm curios, whats your argument as to why Aristotle holds no intellectual merit?

[Anonymous No.6551193]

They were both very similar and excellently done, but in Apocalypse Kurtz is slated to be killed, and in HOD Kurtz was to be rescued.

Does anyone feel that it changes the overall message?

[Anonymous No.6551196]

>>6551094
Read Lord Jim or Nostromo next. Both are fantastic.

I read Under Western Eyes right after The Secret Agent and damned if I can disentangle the two.

[Anonymous No.6551734]

>>6551004
I want to into Conrad, starting with Heart of Darkness. Any specific edition worth looking into? How's Norton's critical edition? I'm probably gonna be making notes, so I'll probably buy a hardcover for the bookshelf later.

[Anonymous No.6551752]

Why do you keep spamming Conrad threads? You got an essay to do?

[Anonymous No.6551772]

>>6551734
the book is so short you can read it in one go. For example, the Everyman's Library version is just 144 pages, the actual story in it is just 110 pages.
Buy the HC right away and don't waste time on making notes inside a book, it's just not worth it. you can do notes on a few pages of paper instead if you really like.

[Anonymous No.6551784]

>>6551772
No thanks I'll keep making notes in my books so I don't lose them and so that I can always compare them with what's in the book

[Anonymous No.6551801]

>>6551004
Did you read Edward Said's essay on the book?

[Anonymous No.6551807]

>>6551157
the innate savagery of every human

[Anonymous No.6551814]

>yfw you realised England was the heart of darkness

[Anonymous No.6551838]

>>6551801

>Chinua Achebe*

[Anonymous No.6551854]

>>6551807
Humans are inherently good the innate savagery is merely a social psychological conception to justify our primitive tendencies ^^

[Anonymous No.6551862]

>>6551838
just a second anon i'll upload this essay

[Anonymous No.6551877]

>>6551004
>>6551838
check this out http://www.mediafire.com/view/h0an468t42euubu/FULLTEXT01.pdf

[Anonymous No.6551927]

>>6551877
>http://www.mediafire.com/view/h0an468t42euubu/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Is this your work? Quite interesting , but a bit repetitive. shame about the typos though!

[Anonymous No.6551938]

>>6551094
Heart of Darkness is his masterpiece.

>>6551838
Yes, it was basically
>muh raycism

Fucking niggers can't talk about anything else than race.

[Anonymous No.6551939]

>>6551157
Far Cry 2 was better than all three, and you know it.

[Anonymous No.6552053]

>>6551927
nah it's not mine. i read some Achebe's as a part of uni assignment last year but i subjectively believe that said's essay is the most thoughtful and insightful interpretation on the matter

[Anonymous No.6552205]

>>6551784
How can you lose notes? Are you a compulsive hoarder?

[Anonymous No.6552353]

>>6551752
First one I've made, I have no essay or anything of that nature, I simply want a discussion of Conrad's literary works. Isn't that what /lit/ is for?

[Anonymous No.6552704]

>>6552205
With notes, you're carrying and using a minimum of two items, book and notes, because if you're using the notes, I don't think it makes sense not having the book by you for reference, and I'm not just talking notes about who did what when, I'm talking that as well as thoughts that come to you as you read, which is also why it's nice having an edition with stuff like examples of interpretation or it's reception history (that you can also add notes to)
If you write it in the book it's all right there, man.

[Anonymous No.6552709]

>>6552704
its*
fuck

[Anonymous No.6552772]

Nostromo is probably my favorite. I think that Heart of Darkness is his best written work, but Nostromo has a little more nuance to it, as it shows the ways colonialism can go wrong when well-intentioned (rather than everyone being a supervillain like in Heart of Darkness)

[Anonymous No.6552808]

>>6552709
>>6552704
It's= it is

The possessive 'its' is spelled without an apostrophe.