《黑暗的心》简介：

本书包括了原书的全文，还由美国文学方面的学者作了详尽的注释，帮助读者理解原文。注释既包括语言方面的内容，又介绍了一些文化背景方面的知识。是公认的二十世纪文学经典、剥葱皮一样把殖民主义者的心态一层层刻画得淋漓尽致。本书具有鲜明的现代主义特色。作者康拉德用了马洛这样一个叙述者，让他以回忆者的身份出现在故事里，他的叙述穿梭于过去与现在、自己和库尔兹及听众之间，让读者分享着他的各种情绪，这种叙述角度的交替，开创了一种新的叙述模式，代替了传统的线性叙述方法。另外，小说中隐喻、象征等修辞手段的运用还使作品极具可读性。“黑暗的心”本身就含有双层寓意：既指地理意义上的黑色的非洲腹地，也指殖民者黑暗的内。本书大量修辞手法的运用大大丰富了作品的意蕴，深化了小说的主题，使小说的思想内容、艺术风格不亚于20世纪任何一部现代主义小说。

《黑暗的心》摘录：

“The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were—No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it—this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity—like yours—the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you—you so remote f...