Hector’s Reviews > Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction > Status Update

Finished Secret Sharer, the final short story, and this one was odd. Even though it was supposed to be about two different characters sharing a strange secret It was written in a way that it could be inferred that he was talking about himself. Of the protagonist giving up his secret self and coming into his new role of the captain of this vessel. Like I said this story was odd and not really for me.

Finished Amy Foster short story and all I can say is dang Amy why you have to do my boy Yanko like that.

Marlow adventure up the Congo river is a bleak one. Where he was expecting exploration and adventure he instead finds exploitation and treachery. He can not outright insult civilized man so he instead just states what he saw while mockingly praising his peers. He also notices that the so called primal man are in some ways more civilized than his peers.

Finished Youth, the first story, And If Conrad continues to write at this level I will enjoy the rest of the book. Youth is about the romance that every man aspires for. To go on an adventure and push themselves to the limit. To truly find the limitations of our bodies and to push beyond them. Whats that meme? Too late for the age of earth exploration and too early for space, but just in time for the office.

Read only what was necessary to get a general idea of the author and skipped most of the introduction since it just expanded further into the details of Conrad's life; Which if I am being honest I do not care about at the moment. Now that I have gotten my bearings. This book has four stories in the following order: Youth, Heart of Darkness, Amy Foster, and The Secret Sharer. Lets see why these stories are so loved