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Edición limitada en tapa dura de este clásico de la literatura moderna, en el centenario de la muerte de Joseph Conrad. >ENGLISH DESCRIPTION An 1899 masterpiece by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad about a voyage up the Congo River into the Heart of Africa. The story is narrated by Charles Marlow, recalling his obsessive quest to locate the ivory trader Kurtz, who has become ensconced deep in the jungle managing a remote outpost. As he ventures further and further down the Congo, Marlow finds himself and his surroundings become increasingly untethered. Heart of Darkness has been widely…mehr

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Edición limitada en tapa dura de este clásico de la literatura moderna, en el centenario de la muerte de Joseph Conrad. >ENGLISH DESCRIPTION An 1899 masterpiece by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad about a voyage up the Congo River into the Heart of Africa. The story is narrated by Charles Marlow, recalling his obsessive quest to locate the ivory trader Kurtz, who has become ensconced deep in the jungle managing a remote outpost. As he ventures further and further down the Congo, Marlow finds himself and his surroundings become increasingly untethered. Heart of Darkness has been widely re-published and translated into many languages. It provided the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness 67th on their list of the 100 best novels in English of the twentieth century. Literary critic Harold Bloom wrote that Heart of Darkness had been analysed more than any other work of literature that is studied in universities and colleges, which he attributed to Conrad's "unique propensity for ambiguity."
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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) nació en la actual Ucrania y fue educado en la Polonia ocupada por Rusia. A los diecisiete años abandonó los estudios para enrolarse en la marina mercante francesa. Vivió una vida aventurera, zarpando de Marsella y viéndose envuelto en tráfico de armas y conspiraciones políticas. A los veintiún años había ya aprendido inglés, lengua en la que escribiría todas sus obras. Tras varios intentos, consiguió aprobar el examen de capitán de barco y finalmente obtuvo la nacionalidad británica en 1884. Entre sus obras más importantes cabe destacar La locura de Almayer (1895), El negro del Narciso (1897), Lord Jim (1900) o La línea de sombra (1917).