El corazón de las tinieblas

Woven around a minimal plot – Marlow's trip on the Congo river to replace Kurtz, a commercial agent who is gravelly ill – Heart of Darkness is a tense moral reflection about solitude and man's struggle against the uncontainable forces of nature. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) introduces the reader to a hallucinating world where the darkness of the African jungle and the eeriness of forgotten instincts merge, creating a trap of annihilating power to which the characters will ultimately submit.