UNSW Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. In our series, Guide to the classics, experts explain key works of literature. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness - or “The Heart of ...
Joseph Conrad had a long career as a merchant mariner before he ever ventured to write fiction. Born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857 to Polish parents in Ukraine, his journeys to the far ...
125 years after it was first serialized in three installments in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness continues to be widely read and to be scrutinized by teachers, ...
"A bloody racist." When African novelist Chinua Achebe summed up Joseph Conrad this way in 1975, it was like a bomb going off in the literary canon. Spurred by Achebe's brash assault, some critics ...