The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is unquestionably disturbing. Not so much because of the surprise ending (if you can call it that) but because throughout the whole book we are like the anonymous second-hand narrator, who describes his emotions this way during a break in Marlowe’s narrative: “I listened, I listened on the [...]
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