Heart of Darkness

Product Description This deeply atmospheric rendering of Conrad’s classic dees colonial trader, Marlow, recount his journey into the heart of Africa and his discovery of Kurtz, a company manager rumoured to have gone mad. As the details of Kurtz's dealings with the natives and his state of mind unfold, the lines between perception and interpretation of madness begin to blur. Continuing SelfMadeHero's acclaimed Eye Classics series, Heart of Darkness is revived for a new generation in a format perfect for the graphic novel genre. Review Artist Catherine Anyango tells how her richly-detailed drawings reflect the dense style of Joseph Conrad s savage colonial story. Now the book has been reinterpreted as a graphic novel in whose monochrome pages Conrad s exploration of power, greed and madness plays out as disturbingly as ever. Anyango, who grew up in Kenya where she went to a British school, wanted to steer a course that was as true as possible to the original so that her version did not sink under the weight of too much intellectual baggage. To reinforce the geographical and historical immediacy of Conrad s tale, the graphic novel is interspersed with excerpts from The Congo Diary the journal Conrad kept of his 1890 voyage up the river. --Sam Jones, The Guardian Graphic Novel of the Month The intensity of Conrad s epic tale of madness is brought to life in graphic detail. I am a complete evangelist for this book, which I consider to be quite magnificent. Plaudits must go to both adaptor and illustrator. Catherine Anyango has brought to life Conrad s nightmare journey far more successfully than the movie-makers who came before her; I m certain that in the future, I will think of Heart of Darkness, and see only her drawings. Every page is both extraordinary, and extraordinarily beautiful, and I urge you to go out and buy it, whether you ve read Conrad or not. --Rachel Cooke, The Observer From the Back Cover “ The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires ” In this deeply atmospheric rendering of Conrad’s classic,we join colonial trader Marlow as he recounts his journey into the heart of Africa. Artist Anyango uses intricate pencil drawings that disintegrate to abstraction as Marlow travels further towards the dying Kurtz and the heart of darkness... Interspersed with excerpts from Conrad’s The Congo Diary, Mairowitz and Anyango create a powerful vision of Conrad’s finest and most end