Marlow sits on a boat anchored in the Thames and tells the men around him about a river journey into the Congo and the trading agent waiting at the end of it.
Joseph Conrad frames the whole novel as that retold voyage, so the reader hears everything at one remove: the wrecked machinery of the ivory stations, the sick and idle company men, the river closing in, and finally Kurtz, whose reputation arrives long before he does. At 128 pages the book is short, but the sentences are dense and repay a slow second reading. Few short novels sit at the centre of as many arguments about empire and its language.
At a glance:
• Conrad's short novel complete in a 128-page paperback
• Told as a frame narrative, with Marlow recounting events years later
• Set among Belgian ivory trading stations along the Congo river
• Central to university debates on colonial writing
Meant for literature students, readers of modernist fiction and anyone building a classics shelf, published by Fingerprint! Publishing and stocked at Boipoka.
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