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Virgil, Ch. Baudelaire, F. Kafka, T.S. Eliot, G. Greene, A. Camus, J.P. Sartre (all lauded as master poets or novelists – the landmarks of literature), King Leopold II, the war in Vietnam, Nazi concentration camps – a strange conglomerate of writers, historical figures and facts; a suffocating labyrinth and the deadly ‘tentacular’ grip of modern civilization. One may wonder who or what connects them all. The answer may astound you: Cedric Watts’ study of Heart of Darkness – or, to be more precise, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Watts expertly demonstrates how the tale encompasses all the major preoccupations of modern literature and, like a proleptic mirror, refl ects all the atrocities of twentieth-century civilization [...]. Recenzja: Conrad's Heart of darkness : a critical and contextual discussion / by Cedric Watts. - 2nd ed. - Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2012. - XI, [1], 153 s. ; 22 cm. - (Conrad Studies; 7) |
