ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Heart of Darkness, novella by Joseph Conrad that was first published in 1899 in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and then in Conrad’s Youth: and Two Other Stories (1902).

Detailed explanation-2: -Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa.

Detailed explanation-3: -When Conrad began to write the novella, eight years after returning from Africa, he drew inspiration from his travel journals. He described Heart of Darkness as “a wild story” of a journalist who becomes manager of a station in the (African) interior and makes himself worshipped by a tribe of natives.

Detailed explanation-4: -Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness retells the story of Marlow’s job as an ivory transporter down the Congo. Through his journey, Marlow develops an intense interest in investigating Kurtz, an ivory-procurement agent, and Marlow is shocked upon seeing what the European traders have done to the natives.

Detailed explanation-5: -Heart of Darkness, novella by Joseph Conrad that was first published in 1899 in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and then in Conrad’s Youth: and Two Other Stories (1902).