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elabyHeart of Darkness ate my brain. It is one book I can recommend reading, but, for the love of god, not in one sitting. I read it in about three, and that was bad enough. It's just so damn uplifting [/sarcasm].
I'm really impressed by the style and the narrative flow, and I wants me a chart that explains just how this fits into Dante's Inferno again. I love Marlow. The "e"-less Marlow, heh. But the thing that struck me the most about this book is how much is told and not shown... and I don't mean to sound like a fiction writing instructor by that. I mean that Marlow tells you certain things (for PAAAAGES) about Kurtz, and all the interaction he has with Kurtz is minimal. So how the heck does he intuit these things from the little time he spent with the guy? The tension between narrative needs and reality (as big a fan of reality as I'm not) makes it really... trippy. Trippy is a good word for this book.
@_@
And now I am condemned to a mountain of special circ. Whee.
OooOOoooo *discovers chocolate in the basket on the shelf*
I'm really impressed by the style and the narrative flow, and I wants me a chart that explains just how this fits into Dante's Inferno again. I love Marlow. The "e"-less Marlow, heh. But the thing that struck me the most about this book is how much is told and not shown... and I don't mean to sound like a fiction writing instructor by that. I mean that Marlow tells you certain things (for PAAAAGES) about Kurtz, and all the interaction he has with Kurtz is minimal. So how the heck does he intuit these things from the little time he spent with the guy? The tension between narrative needs and reality (as big a fan of reality as I'm not) makes it really... trippy. Trippy is a good word for this book.
@_@
And now I am condemned to a mountain of special circ. Whee.
OooOOoooo *discovers chocolate in the basket on the shelf*
