A review by jessiker
Heart of Darkness: and Selections from The Congo Diary by Joseph Conrad

2.0

Interesting to dive into a book of purely pointless observation and apathy, which seems to be Conrad’s outlook on life in general. Some critics call him an ‘honest questioner’ and many more a ‘bloody racist’ which I would say is more or less accurate of a man completely at the mercy of wherever ‘fate’ decides to place him to observe.
This is not a work of soul searching heroics, idealism vs. reality, or the question of man’s place in the world, but a dark glimpse at the de-humanization even the name of a place can hold. “The horror, the horror.”