Comments on: Heart of Darkness and Youth – Joseph Conrad

By: booktiger

booktiger — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:25:47 +0000

It is both a disturbing film, and a disturbing book, but not light reading. And bearing in mind the troubles which are occurring in The Congo right at the moment, I think it is an even more relevant book now (along with Tim Butcher’s recent book as well).

Thanks for your comments

By: Josette

Josette — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:19:49 +0000

Hi there,

I commented earlier but wasn’t sure if it appeared! :/

Anyway, I watched and studied Apocalypse Now which was based on this book by Joseph Conrad. It’s a rather disturbing film portraying the madness of the Vietnam War and of Colonel Kurtz. I learnt a lot from my researching the movie and story. The trouble the director went through in the making of the movie was quite exciting too.

By: Jeane

Jeane — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:50:20 +0000

While I learned about Conrad and his ideas in school, we never actually read the book (I don’t know why). I feel it’s one I really ought to open someday, one of those “required” classics for the reading mind.