Why do people overrate this book so much?

Because the movie is great

Not even gonna lie, I bought that exact edition soley for the cover after hearing mention of the book once. the cover work for the whole Conrad Penguin collection by Hale are all immaculate

I have it too, picked it over two other editions because it has Conrad's Kongo diary in the appendix. I like the cover

>"hurrrr colonialism was bad"
then why did it depict the Africans as being even worse than the Europeans?

>with the overall message of "hurrrr colonialism was bad"

you really did miss the point

to put such a cover on the heart of darkness is pretty much like putting a cover of some buchenwald victim on anne frank's diary

>missing the point

that's the cover which misses the point of the book and is made only to sell it better

>Implying you can sanitize the Belgian Congo

The book isn't about African suffering. It's more so about the kind of suffering that you eventually see in Kurtz, who is depicted suffering on the cover.

Well said OP. The video game is way more engaging and you don't have to use any of that faggy imagination

Why? isn't it a scene from the climax? when Kurtz is crawling in the darkness with a heart full of it

White man's burden

sounds like something Wordsworth would do.

Maybe throw in some dragons on the cover to really bring the fantasy all together.

It was real.... in Otto Franks mind

if it's him, he looks too much like one of the niggers who crawl to die as seen by the narrator at the first part of the novel and it's a superfluous similarity which distorts what this novel about

if it's a random nigger then this cover makes the book sound 'hurrrr colonialism was bad' too much

anyway it's made solely to sell this particular print of it to the fools like who are after graphic depictions of suffering

It's clearly not a black man.

The Folio Society edition is pretty nice, tbqhwyf

Looks like some cutesy YA graphic novel. Probably overpriced as hell too.

and you found out his race how? his skin color on a monochrome image set in darkness can be both black and white, he looks starving too

either way it's a low taste cover

>Monochrome

Then why aren't his pants white too you fucking idiot?

I'd agree with that about the slipcase, but I think the cover is somewhat fitting. And as it's Folio Society, yes, it is of course overpriced.

you are retard if you think that niggers are pitch black

i like it

Africans look black on monochrome imagery.

You are even more retarded if you think niggers are pitch white.

It's Congo-kino, plebs wouldn't understand.

Fucking plebs. I bet you haven't even opened it, huh?

That fact that he looks starving is evidence that the cover image is portraying Kurtz

Read it 2 years ago, not exactly a difficult read

>I found a fantastic scene in Heart of Darkness which I couldn’t believe hadn’t been done before. This is the scene where Kurtz escapes. He’s been under arrest in a steamer, and he escapes in the middle of the night. And he’s crawling on his hands and knees through the bush to get back to his hut and to the native encampment. It was such a fantastic image and nobody had done it, what a beautiful central image. That was the final cover. I did two versions of it but one was clearly better than the other.”
tripwiremagazine.co.uk/interview/throwback-thursday-phil-hale/

no, I'm in the middle of two other books and I'm probably not even going to read it next. There's a lot of books on my shelf I haven't gotten to yet, have you read every single book you own?

What is the central message of this book? I've not read it and probably won't so please don't reply with "just read it." a really short summary will do

It displays the extreme consequences from when man's irrational inclination for greed goes unimpeded. Moral, mental, and physical destruction ensues for all parties involved.

A lot of it related to Freudian theory which was being developed at the same time. As well as Nietzschean philsophy of course. To this end ,the colonial 'other' represents the repressed elements of the civlised self, that leads to "neuroses".

Within the heart of civilised man lies a repressed "heart of darkness".

Seriously. Post anime girls

>"hurr. Colonialism was bad."
It's not Joseph Conrad's fault you can't look deeper than surface imagery.