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Joseph Conrad
On a yacht anchored in the Thames at dusk, the sailor Marlow tells his friends about the time he took a job as captain of a river steamer for a Belgian…
On a yacht anchored in the Thames at dusk, the sailor Marlow tells his friends about the time he took a job as captain of a river steamer for a Belgian trading company in the Congo. He saw the cruelty of the ivory trade at the stations along the river and heard everywhere of Kurtz, the company's most successful agent, far upstream; when he finally reaches him, he finds a man who has made himself a god among the people there and whose last words are: The horror! The horror!
Joseph Conrad, a Polish-born sailor who wrote in English, had made the same journey in 1890, and the novella of 1899 remains one of the most argued-about books on empire, admired for its art and criticised for the way it portrays Africans. Kristin LeMoine reads it alone, in about four hours.
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