Heart of Darkness: White Lies
Joseph Conrad's slender volume Heart of Darkness, published serially in Blackwood's Magazine in
1899, has probably received more critical attention per page than any other prose work. Layer
after layer has been examined and analysed, and continually they seem to lead on to
increasingly abstract strata. Critics have demonstrated how Marlow, fundamentally unreliable
and partial in his capacity of first-person narrator, becomes involved in the action and is
gradually changed by the events he describes. Using time-shifts and varying vantage points, he
takes the puzzled readers as well as the listeners on board the Nellie along the borderlines of
consciousness and reality. Like the narrator, we are allowed to "peep over the edge" into the
dark abyss, as it were, but still the novel teases like a dream, contradictory and intriguing.
According to E. M. Forster, among others, Conrad's obscurity mediates a kind of double vision
caused by discrepancies......

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