Heart of Darkness seemed to bypass some of my usual routes for understanding fiction....it was a disturbing short novel on a subconscious level.....Nabokov is another author who wrote in his second language (not his third) in an extraordinary way.
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I finished this yesterday and whilst it only took two sittings the house was rowdy and I had feared I was missing something which has prompted me to buy a cheap audio book from iTunes to listen to in the van to see if having it read to me changes my mind (Marlow's instant just add water relationship with Kurtz was causing me difficulty) . As a bonus it has a reading of "Youth" which is a great yarn and I am now inspired to read that and pretty much everything else he has written. So thanks WW243 for your post as he wasn't on my radar as a must read and who knows when I would have got around to him if ever.