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Wisdom in SpaceEvery age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. -- Joseph Conrad⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wisdom</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Quotes</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Illusions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Illusions</a>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Photography</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Panorama</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChacoCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChacoCanyon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sunset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sunset</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewMexico</a>

FID Anglo-American Culture🚨 new book alert! 🚨 4 new books on <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Modernism</a> Facing the uncertainty of Modernism, the treatment of <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/spectrality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spectrality</a> & <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/ghosts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ghosts</a> in works by <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a>, <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/EMForster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EMForster</a>, <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/MaryButts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaryButts</a>, & <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/ElizabethBowen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElizabethBowen</a> is analysed by Stephen Ross: "There is hope in these ghosts, not resignation"<a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/ModernistLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ModernistLiterature</a>

Robin Marx's Writing RepositoryCapsule Review Archive – Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad <a href="https://write.as/robinmarx/capsule-review-archive-heart-of-darkness-by-joseph-conrad" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://write.as/robinmarx/capsule-review-archive-heart-of-darkness-by-joseph-conrad</a>

MalThere are three <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/modernist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#modernist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> whose <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/ShortStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShortStories</a> remind me of each others', that I often wonder whether they read one another. No matter how unlikely it might be, given their different times and milieux. Here's the list, in rough chronological order:* <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/SamuelClemens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SamuelClemens</a>/ <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/MarkTwain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkTwain</a>. * <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/BrianONolan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrianONolan</a>/ <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FlannOBrien</a>/ <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/MilesNaGopaleen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilesNaGopaleen</a>. * <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/HermanCharlesBosman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HermanCharlesBosman</a>.Seems most likely that Twain could have been read by the other two.<a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a> fits in here somewhere too, I suspect.There must be research into this kind of link. Modernist short stories are fundamentally important artefacts of the 20th Century, so this sort of thing must be known.

Peter RileyBased On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colonialism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racism</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> in Congo and beyond is chronicled by Sven Lindqvist (1996) Book Title is a quote by Kurtz from earlier “fiction” classic Heart of Darkness by J.C. (1899) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exterminate_All_the_Brutes_(book)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exterminate_All_the_Brutes_(book)</a>Text: <a href="https://archive.org/details/exterminateallbr00lind" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/exterminateallbr00lind</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SvenLindqvist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SvenLindqvist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/josephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#josephConrad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congo</a>

Ingrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪I sell these because they're double in my collection. (not easy to find) 🎥 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/chantalakerman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chantalakerman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dvd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dvd</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cinema</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lacaptive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lacaptive</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lafoliealmayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lafoliealmayer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/docu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#docu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/proust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proust</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/josephconrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#josephconrad</a>

drafterJ'aime bien lire des nouvelles. Si les anglophones (<a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/NadineGordimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NadineGordimer</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/LuciaBerlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LuciaBerlin</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/GracePaley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GracePaley</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/RaymondCarver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RaymondCarver</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a> évidemment...) sont omniprésents dans ma bibliothèque, j'y ai récemment ajouté la Russe Dina Rubina ("Zoom avant", Phébus, 2006, trad Yves Gauthier) dont le récit d'un tournage de film improbable à Tachkent est un véritable bijou d'auto-dérision, d'humour noir et de désillusion. La couverture du livre (Poumeyrol, 1978) renvoie à la nouvelle sur Venise. <a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/VendrediLecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VendrediLecture</a>

Marcio LMDia 3 de agosto fez 100 anos da morte de Joseph Conrad, conforme <a href="https://mstdn.mx/@albertochimal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@albertochimal</a> o <a href="https://mstdn.mx/@albertochimal/112904389368796804" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">escreveu</a> em <a href="https://www.jornada.com.mx/2024/08/03/cultura/a02n1cul" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">La Jornada</a> :<blockquote> A un siglo de su muerte, Joseph Conrad aún nos cuenta cosas que preferiríamos no saber</blockquote><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/literatura" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literatura</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/colonialismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialismo</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/josephconrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#josephconrad</a>

Alberto ChimalSe cumple el <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/centenario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#centenario</a> de la muerte de <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a>, el autor de "El corazón de las tinieblas", migrante y crítico de un imperio. Me tocó decir algo sobre su obra. <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/literatura" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literatura</a> <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/libros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libros</a> <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/libroverso" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libroverso</a> <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/escritores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#escritores</a> <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/novelistas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#novelistas</a> <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/novela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#novela</a> <a href="https://www.jornada.com.mx/2024/08/03/cultura/a02n1cul" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.jornada.com.mx/2024/08/03/cultura/a02n1cul</a>

Ian HuntJuly <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> looks embarassingly like operation head-in-sand. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ThomasHardy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThomasHardy</a>, Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872 <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Hannah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hannah</a> Regel, The Last Sane Woman, 2024 <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a> The Secret Agent, 1907 <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/IvyCompton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IvyCompton</a>-Burnett, A Family and a Fortune, 1939 and The Present and the Past, 1953

Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten📻️🌃️ Lange Nacht: Joseph Conrad Mehr als ein Schriftsteller der See Ein geborener Pole, der in Frankreich Seemann wurde und als englischer Schriftsteller Weltruhm erlangte: Joseph Conrad hat mindestens drei Leben geführt und ein umfassendes Werk hinterlassen. Im Spiegel der See erblickte er die Seele des Menschen. (Erstsendung am 1.8.20) <a href="https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/joseph-conrad-104.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/joseph-conrad-104.html</a> <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/hashtag/254539" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a> <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/hashtag/260343" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LangeNacht</a>(comment on <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/book/139276" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joseph Conrad</a>)

the roamer<a href="https://mastodon.social/@danielbowdoin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@danielbowdoin</a> A powerful quote from a great novel. Conrad has a unique way, hasn't he, of creating rich parallels and analogies between spheres of existence, and then clouding all directionality. We may think of the sea voyage as an allegory of our experience of life, but it is the Captain who is explained to us by images of the unseeing lives of regular people. Conrad invokes abstract notions of the futility of those lives to help us understand the Captain and his actions. <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a>

d4doomeJoseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent from 1907 is an important milestone in the development of the spy novel. It's the beginning of the pessimistic, sordid, cynical school of spy fiction. A study in the psychology of espionage, and of betrayal.My review: <a href="https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2019/10/joseph-conrads-secret-agent.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2019/10/joseph-conrads-secret-agent.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/spies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/spynovel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spynovel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/spies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/spynovels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spynovels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/vintagethriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagethriller</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/vintagethrillers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagethrillers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/spythriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spythriller</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/spythrillers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spythrillers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a>

Jonathan EmmesediI've been reading Joseph Conrad recently. I completely understand why the offensive racial epithet in the original title of the novel published in the USA as "Children of the Sea" had to go.Unfortunately, that offensive epithet is used throughout the work, sometimes ventriloquised, sometimes not. It cannot simply be excised from the text. As a consequence, "Children of the Sea" is probably impossible to assign to students and difficult to discuss in depth elsewhere.I would not be surprised therefore if the work slips into oblivion. Such obscurity would be a loss, since Conrad touches on important themes concerning masculinity, solidarity in the face of a hostile nature, and - yes - race. The novel also reveals something about Conrad's political leanings. In addition, Conrad wrote some magnificently evocative prose in his account of the voyage of the Narcissus.Please don't read this post as an attack on "wokery" or "snowflakes". Sometimes quashing the circulation of hateful racist language matters more than literary discussion, so I would not want to struggle to prevent this book sliding off the syllabus. Yet, as so often is the case, the right decision is not cost free; we are losing something important as we lose sight of "Children of the Sea". <a href="https://c.im/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChildrenOfTheSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChildrenOfTheSea</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Narcissus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Narcissus</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racism</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MoralDilemmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MoralDilemmas</a>Image -- CBN Polona via Picryl.com -- Public domain

Paul FilevMy <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/stencil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stencil</a> of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a> (<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BOTD</a>) from 2010, the only stencil I ever did in mid-life crisis red. Not my favourite colour at all, but a friend bought me a can of red spray paint for my birthday that year and I felt like I had to use it.

Laura SSM<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cinema</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Movies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Films</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pel%C3%ADculas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Películas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cinemastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cinemastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoFilms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoFilms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ObrasMaestrasDelCine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ObrasMaestrasDelCine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ApocalypseNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ApocalypseNow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FordCoppola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FordCoppola</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElCoraz%C3%B3nDeLasTinieblas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElCorazónDeLasTinieblas</a> Solo queda recomendar la novela El corazón de las tinieblas que Joseph Conrad escribió tras presenciar los horrores perpetrados en el Congo bajo el reinado de Leopoldo II de Bélgica. Esta es la dramatización de Orson Welles, que intentó llevar el libro a la pantalla y acabó desistiendo por problemas de presupuesto <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=201xgXsJMuA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=201xgXsJMuA</a>

Laura SSM<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cinema</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Movies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Films</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pel%C3%ADculas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Películas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cinemastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cinemastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoFilms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoFilms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ObrasMaestrasDelCine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ObrasMaestrasDelCine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ApocalypseNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ApocalypseNow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FordCoppola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FordCoppola</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElCoraz%C3%B3nDeLasTinieblas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElCorazónDeLasTinieblas</a> 🎬 Si Apocalypse Now también es tu película favorita, tal vez te guste este hilo con imágenes inéditas de la bajada a los infiernos que supuso su rodaje. He editado los vídeos, por partes relacionadas, del documental de Eleanor Coppola Corazones en tinieblas: Apocalipsis de un director (1991), rodado en 16 mm.

Of Bookish ThingsApocalypse Meow. - based on the novel, "Bark Of Darkness"<a href="https://c.im/tags/CatAMovie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatAMovie</a>! <a href="https://c.im/tags/HashItOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HashItOut</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HeartOfDarkness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeartOfDarkness</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Novel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HashTagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HashTagGames</a><a href="https://media.giphy.com/media/9IRX12VhoXoR2/giphy.gif" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://media.giphy.com/media/9IRX12VhoXoR2/giphy.gif</a><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/219" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/219</a>

Robert FairheadI read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad during my classics catch-up period in England during the late 1980s. While I remember little of the story, I recall being in awe of Conrad's evocative description of the steamboat journey up the forested Belgian Congo.I am aware of the criticism of Conrad and the novel as racist. However, I was intrigued when I saw the audiobook version of Heart of Darkness "performed" by Kenneth Branagh (Audible Studios 2010). Would I still find the writing evocative? Or would the story be too racist?The answer was yes to both for me. And while the derogatory description of African people and the abuse by their colonial overlords is repulsive, if I excised those parts of the book from my consciousness, I was still in awe of Conrad's writing.One thing that struck me was that I couldn't tell where the protagonist Marlowe's sympathies lay. His generalisations are racist, though they could be said to be "of their time". But he also expresses disgust at the colonial brutality.I'll leave this for others to debate. However, I don't regret revisiting The Heart of Darkness as an audiobook. And Branagh's "performance" had me relisten to it a second time.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/audiobooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#audiobooks</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HeartOfDarkness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeartOfDarkness</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/KennethBranagh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KennethBranagh</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Audible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Audible</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AudibleStudios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AudibleStudios</a>

the roamer<a href="https://mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bodhipaksa</a> Following this up, it's <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephConrad</a>, <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheShadowLine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheShadowLine</a>.The novel is almost entirely dialogue in direct speech, with very few descriptive or reflective passages. Here the young man digests the fact that his dream of having his own command has come true. The sentences combine abstract metaphysical elevation with the sensual concreteness in the description of the ship's body. All these hopes will of course be entirely shattered, as they must.A <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/modernist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#modernist</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Bildungsroman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bildungsroman</a>.

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