Heart of Darkness
Oct. 3rd, 2004 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vollmusI've been using the phrase "heart of darkness" whenever possible in my speech for the past two weeks or so, since I got the book and began reading it, in a purposefully over-dramatic way. The title drew me in from the very beginning.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is most likely the best book I have ever read. I could discuss it for hours with my friends in English, if they had the same feelings for it that I do, but they don't. They seem to agree that it is infinitely better than most of the books we were forced to read last year (I still haven't finished All Quiet on the Western Front, and that was unquestionably my favorite book of them all), but they don't have any intense feelings of awe.
I didn't know anyone could possibly write like this. It's amazing. I know there is symbolic and metaphorical language within that I don't understand or might not even have noticed, but I don't need to understand them to be spellbound. Marlow speaks to me like Kurtz spoke to the Russian, to his Intended, to his fellow writer, to everyone. It's indescribable.
I am completely enamoured with this book.
Is that normal?
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is most likely the best book I have ever read. I could discuss it for hours with my friends in English, if they had the same feelings for it that I do, but they don't. They seem to agree that it is infinitely better than most of the books we were forced to read last year (I still haven't finished All Quiet on the Western Front, and that was unquestionably my favorite book of them all), but they don't have any intense feelings of awe.
I didn't know anyone could possibly write like this. It's amazing. I know there is symbolic and metaphorical language within that I don't understand or might not even have noticed, but I don't need to understand them to be spellbound. Marlow speaks to me like Kurtz spoke to the Russian, to his Intended, to his fellow writer, to everyone. It's indescribable.
I am completely enamoured with this book.
Is that normal?
