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In HEART OF DARKNESS, Marlow, the narrator, undertakes both an outer
and an inner journey. The outer journey takes him into the heart of Africa, where
he encounters representatives of every colonial stripe. Performing the work instead
of simply reading it, Scott Brick emphasizes this aspect of Conrad's classic,
clearly conveying class differences and a range of foreign accents, as well as
pidgin. Conrad's prose is dense and complex, but Brick delivers it smoothly and
gracefully. However, Marlow's inner journey--during which he confronts the mysterious
Mr. Kurtz--remains too distant and intellectualized to fully capture the emotional
charge of the moment.
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