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A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.

Le capitaine Marlow raconte sa remontée d'un grand fleuve africain sur un vapeur jusqu'au "cœur des ténèbres", à la recherche d'un certain Kurtz.

"La folie et le désespoir ! Qu'on me donne cela comme levier, et je ferai bouger le monde". Verloc, espion infiltrant le milieu anarchiste, se voit sommé de commettre un attentat retentissant, sous peine de se voir retirer ses rétributions. Mais personne dans son entourage, à commencer par sa femme, ne sait rien de ses activités parallèles. Tout se gâte réellement lorsque Stevie, le frère attardé mental de la femme de M. Verloc, s'intéresse aux agissements de son beau-frère.

Charles Marlow recounts his adventures into the Congo and into the brutality of British colonialism.

Although Heart of Darkness was one of the first literary texts to provide a critical view of European imperial activities, it was initially read by critics as anything but controversial. While the book was generally admired, it was typically seen either as a condemnation of a certain type of adventurer who could easily take advantage of imperialism’s opportunities, or else as a sentimental novel reinforcing domestic values: Kurtz’s Intended, who appears at the novella’s conclusion, was roundly praised by turn-of-the-century reviewers for her maturity and sentimental appeal. A classic.

"Sur les bancs argentés les hippopotames et les crocodiles prenaient le soleil côte à côte. On perdait son chemin sur ce fleuve comme on le ferait dans un désert, tant qu'on se croyait coupé à jamais de tout ce qu'on avait connu jadis - quelque part - bien loin - dans une autre existence peut-être."

Deux histoires d’anarchistes. Dans la première, un ouvrier finit au bagne et dans la seconde, un bourgeois boit du champagne ! Grâce à un ami, Conrad a découvert les milieux anarchistes de Londres. De ces rencontres, il en tirera deux récits :. Un anarchiste : Dans une île de l'estuaire d'un grand fleuve sud-américain, un chasseur de papillons rencontre " un citoyen anarchiste ". Il nous raconte l'histoire de Crocodile, ce pauvre ouvrier français anarchiste malgré lui évadé du bagne de Cayenne, mécanicien sur un petit vapeur.

"J'ai tenté avec un respect presque filial de rendre la vibration vitale du vaste monde des eaux, du coeur des hommes simples qui, depuis des siècles, traverses ses solitudes." Ainsi s'exprime Conrad à propos de son récit. Mais "Typhon" n'est pas que la relation d'une épreuve maritime.

Jim, the first mate aboard a small steamer named the Patna, travels from port to port in the Pacific Ocean. When the ship hits floating wreckage, Jim and the crew are forced to abandon it, leaving hundreds of ethnic travelers onboard. However, Jim's reprehensible actions are soon discovered by the court, and he is compelled to face his guilt and redeem himself - a journey that leads him to a remote exotic location where he is revered as the Lord, "Tuan Jim".

La querelle légendaire entre deux officiers hussards de l’armée napoléonienne qui débute sur un malentendu trivial et se transforme en une obsession qui va façonner leur destin. Pendant qu'en Europe les guerres napoléoniennes font rage, les deux hommes se retrouvent à intervalles plus ou moins réguliers, afin de poursuivre leur duel. Conrad déploie son talent à explorer les tréfonds de l'âme humaine. Derrière l'action des duels à l'épée et au pistolet se trouve une réflexion sur l'honneur, l'orgueil et l'absurdité de certaines valeurs.

Two colonial officers extol the benefits they are bringing to an African village in the form of "quays and warehouses, and barracks-and billiard-rooms". A French republican who has fathered three idiot sons makes his peace with the Church: only to have an idiot daughter. A woman chooses not to leave her husband...but he leaves her. Such are the ironies of Conrad's earliest short stories.

Joseph Conrad's searing tale of one of the strangest and most memorable journeys ever taken. Quite simply the scariest book ever written, this is a searing tale of one of the strangest and most memorable journeys ever undertaken - to the heart of a geographical and psychological wilderness from which no-one returns unscarred. For this isn't simply a journey up an uncharted river into a geographical wilderness; rather, it's a trip deep into our collective subconscious.

Le fleuve Congo, dans 'Au cœur des ténèbres', est bien plus qu'un simple cours d'eau ; il est une métaphore de l'inconscient humain, de l'obscurité qui sommeille en chacun de nous. En remontant ce fleuve sinueux, Marlow entreprend un voyage intérieur, une exploration des profondeurs de son âme. Au fur et à mesure qu'il avance, les repères de la civilisation s'effacent, laissant place à un monde primitif et sauvage.

Henry Whalley is a true sailor, earning years of experience as a ship’s captain before his retirement. Faced with unexpected financial problems and a desire to help his married daughter earn her place in the world, Whalley is forced to sell his boat and buy his way back into service on a trade vessel. But Whalley is living so close to financial ruin that any small deviation from his course will put him over the edge . . . The End of the Tether is one of the many books that author Joseph Conrad wrote about sailors and the sea.

Our agent, a man named Mr Verloc, minds his own business while he keeps his shop in London's Soho, alongside his wife, who attends to her aged mother and disabled brother. Their lives are turned upside down when Verloc is reluctantly employed to plant a bomb and destroy an observatory in London. What was once the perfect bomb plot inevitably turns awry and Verloc, his family and his associates are forced to face the consequences.

This work set the style for a whole class of literature, a work that the critic Morton Dauwen Zabel calls an example of Conrad's "central theme...the grip of circumstances that enforce self-discovery and its cognate, the discovery of reality and truth...." It is a novel about a man's lifelong efforts to atone for an act of instinctive cowardice.

The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures – spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life, fully realised as vivid, cinematic radio productions. Scripted by major 20th Century writers, they star a host of A-list actors and feature richly evocative, atmospheric soundtracks.

Marlow (nombre ficticio que usa Conrad) remonta el río Congo como capitán de barco en un tiempo en el que la región se encontraba bajo el dominio colonial belga, que saqueaba el país a base de las más terribles atrocidades. Marlow va en busca de Kurtz, el jefe de una explotación de marfil que ha establecido un verdadero régimen de terror en el lugar. Marlow jamás olvidará lo que vio en ese viaje a las tinieblas de África y del alma humana.

Secret agent Mr. Adolph Verloc operates from a seedy Soho shop, where he deals in pornography and espionage. Idle, treacherous, and self-righteous, he makes the life of his wife, Winnie, one of silent misery. When Verloc is assigned to plant a bomb at Greenwich Observatory, his plans go terribly awry, and his family has to deal with the tragic repercussions of his actions. Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, while rooted in the Edwardian period, remains strikingly contemporary.

Joseph Conrad was born on 3rd December 1857 in Berdychiv in the Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. His birthplace had been part of Poland which its neighbours dismembered into their own Empires. Conrad brought to English Literature both narrative mastery, compelling prose and fully formed characters as well as a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of work. He wrote many novels, short stories, nonfiction, and memoirs which are rightly regarded today as some of the finest in English literature.