HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 BOOK REVIEW [CC]

My *SPOILER FREE* review of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

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[tdmthomas]

As a native-English speaker now permanently based in Italy, I am in awe of Conrad. The contemporary analogue who comes to mind is Jhumpa Lahiri who, after establishing an accomplished career as a native English-language author, moved to Italy and now writes and publishes exclusively in Italian. Language acquisition is something I have prioritized in my life, and it is a dream to become so proficient as to publish in a second or third language. I know that you understand this drive! Thank you for this thoughtful review, which included a great reflection on the importance of learning languages!

[voz]

Thank you for your helpful commentary. I just finished the book and was hoping to get some feedback on the end but as you said, people don't like spoilers. That's understandable but, how about saying you will discuss the ending last and folks can stop watching if they choose? I am ambivalent about the ending and would have appreciated your opinion especially since you've read this book more than once. I just discovered your channel and look forward exploring your videos.

[katietatey]

I read this book about 15 years ago and don't remember much of it. I keep seeing it maligned on Booktube as people's most hated book! I really want to reread it now because I didn't have strong feelings about it, and see how I like it now. I appreciate that you motivated us to read it with your mention of the ending, but didn't spoil it. Even though classics have been around forever, I still hate spoilers and like to discover surprises on my own, so thank you! :)

[JoshsBookishVoyage]

Fantastic review! I read heart of darkness in high school AP literature. I absolutely hated it. I tend to call it the worst book I've ever read.
Naturally, I've been wanting to reread it. I'd love to do a reading of it alongside Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart which I read in in college lit.

[vifrollo]

Love your review. As a Polish reader I can tell you Conrad is not popular here (although he has a great munument where I live), the language he uses is difficult, too difficult for a contemporary reader, I think.Conrad is not in a syllabus of any school in Poland, oddly enough not even when I was a student of English Philology in Poland. Btw, the sound "rz" in Korzeniowski is read as the final sound in mirage or the initial in French j'aime;)

[youtuber]

If a good system brings out the best in people, then doesn't a bad system (e.g., colonialism) bring out the worst? Could the following said of A PASSAGE TO INDIA also apply to HEART...?:
- Although Forster ultimately offers no concrete alternative to British colonialism, his overall message is that colonialism in India is a harmful system for both the British and the Indians.