Robert Kimbrough Bücher

"The three stories in this volume lay no claim to unity of artistic purpose. The only bond between them is that of the time in which they were written." Thus Conrad, in his Author's Note of 1917, qualifies his later statement that the stories represent the three ages of man--youth, maturity and age. Together on one volume we see that he did not set out to write about three separate periods of life, but rather that he wrote about life from three separate points of view.

Kapitän Marlow steuert seinen Flußdampfer immer tiefer in die Wildnis des Kongo, ins Herz des afrikanischen Kontinents, wo er auf den zwielichtigen Elfenbeinhändler Kurtz stößt. Die Geschichte eines halbwegs moralischen Kulturmenschen auf dem gefahrvollen Weg über eine Kruste kaum erkalteter Lava, die jeden Augenblick durchbrechen und den Unvorsichtigen in heiß lodernde Abgründe sinken lassen könnte.