...their effect on him, even though this is a break with the wishes of the audience. For when Marlow says, "I don't want to bother you much with what happened to me personally," the primary narrator protests on behalf of fiction's traditional interest in individual character:...

...begins (and how unlike Conrad's inability to conceive of a planned book before he became an author) "we knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run,...hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences." (XVI, 51) As Conrad surveyed his novels for the Author's Notes he wrote at a late point in his career...

...has a lot to do with losing our readers! The same listener also says about Marlow's beginning, Xve knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run, to...hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences.' " "Is that your way of telling me I am being too abstract?" "Only partly. Despite my teasing, I admit,...

...tale" (7", vii). Marlow makes this concern explicit in "Heart of Darkness" when he warns his audience, "I don't want to bother you much with what happened to me personally." But they must know the events of the story "to understand the effect of it" on him (F, 51). The way...

...Conrad foregrounds and reflects upon the ethics of representation as embedded within narrative ("4I don't want to bother you much with what happened to...unaware of what their audience would best like to hear" [7]). But the response to such reflections is an awareness of the world characterized by a radical...

...as the two rivers in Marlow's story (3, 38). And indeed, as his story begins, we learn that we are "fated, before the ebb began to run, to hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences" (7); clearly, the tale is only "one of many that constitute a perpetual process of exposure. Even at...

...an altered version of his own experiences in Africa for his Victorian audience through the novella: 'I don't want to bother you much with what happened to me personally (...) yet to understand the effect of it on me you ought to know how I got there, what I saws how I...

...towards Marlow for claiming the right to narrate. When Marlow starts talking, the narrator remarks: "we knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run,...hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences" (11). Two of the interruptions in Marlow's monologue reinforce the impression of a lack of reciprocity...

...the British empire: I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit. ... I don't want to bother you much with what happened to me personally . . . yet to understand the effect of it on me you ought to know how I got there, what I saw, how I...

...silence, when he said in a hesitating voice, "I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit," that we knew we were fated, before...hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Few critical studies of Joseph Conrad's literary corpus fail to somehow...