ARTSSCI 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Congo River, Troupes De Marine
14 Aug 2020
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He was trilingual, but lived in an oppressive polish government and his father was exiled to siberia, so he and his mother were exiled as well. He went to live with his uncle, the joined the french marines. He never learned to speak english very well, but his writing was entirely in english (his third language) He was profoundly interested in language and geography. Shook up his conventional european vision of reality. Afterwards, he said that "before the congo, i was a mere animal" He realized his dream of visiting the "heart" of the african continent was tarnished by the greed of colonialism (this is the surface meaning) Tale not told directly; narrator is bearing witness to another storyteller, charlie marlowe. And marlowe is telling a story about an even more unconventional character, mr. A story not just about european/imperial colonialism, though it does contain that.
