Heart of Darkness : Norton Critical Edition

Resumen del libro

The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of "Heart of Darkness" that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with a generous collection of maps and photographs that bring the Belgian Congo to life. Textual materials, topically arranged, address nineteenth-century views of imperialism and racism and include autobiographical writings by Conrad on his life in the Congo. New to the Fourth Edition is an excerpt from Adam Hochschild's recent book, "King Leopold's Ghost," as well as writings on race by Hegel, Darwin, and Galton.
"Criticism" includes a wealth of new materials, including nine contemporary reviews and assessments of Conrad and "Heart of Darkness" and twelve recent essays by Chinua Achebe, Peter Brooks, Daphne Erdinast-Vulcan, Edward Said, and Paul B. Armstrong, among others. Also new to this edition is a section of writings on the connections between "Heart of Darkness" and the film "Apocalypse Now" by Louis K. Greiff, Margot Norris, and Lynda J. Dryden.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Biografía del autor

Nacido como Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (Berdyczów, entonces Imperio ruso, actual Ucrania, 1857-Bishopsbourne, Inglaterra, 1924), fue un novelista polaco que adoptó el inglés como lengua literaria. Su obra explora la vulnerabilidad y la inestabilidad moral del ser humano cuando es sometido a una situación límite. Considerado como uno de los más grandes novelistas de la literatura inglesa, entre sus títulos destacan 'El corazón de las tienieblas' (1899), 'Lord Jim' (1900), 'El agente secreto' (1907) y 'Bajo la mirada de Occidente' (1911).