Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is not simply a critique of colonialism in the Congo; it is a tale of the human tendency toward self-endangering corruptibility. Harold Bloom suggests it has taken on some power of myth.
The title, Joseph Conrad's’s Heart of Darkness, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Joseph Conrad's’s Heart of Darkness through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Joseph Conrad's, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
