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" Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. "
Youth: And Two Other Stories - Pagina 105
di Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 pagine
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Within My Horizon

Helen Bartlett Bridgman - 1920 - 290 pagine
...the depths of the shadows fierce animals lurk sullenly. As Conrad said of a different continent, " It was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted and the big trees were kings." I think of it often now that the Netherland Indies are a mere pinpoint...
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Conrad's Western World

Norman Sherry - 1971 - 484 pagine
...return to the primeval in geographical and ethical time: 48 Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. . .We were wanderers on prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. ....
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Conrad in the Nineteenth Century

Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 pagine
..."ichthyosaurus . . . taking a bath" (86); later he recalls that "going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings" (92-93). The primeval world which Marlow encounters is a very far cry from that of noble savages: "We...
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A Common Spring: Crime Novel and Classic

Nadya Aisenberg - 1979 - 292 pagine
...the detective novel, but a garden of decay, physical and moral. Conrad is very explicit about this. "Going up that river was like traveling back to the...empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. [But] the air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of the sunshine."...
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Self, Sign, and Symbol

Mark Neuman, Michael Payne - 1987 - 196 pagine
...with the nonhuman ("empty stream, great silence, impenetrable forest"); and through direct metaphor ("When vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings"). It is a critical commonplace to speak of Marlow's journey as symbolic. But it is not easy to say what...
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William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond

Cleanth Brooks - 1989 - 468 pagine
...prehistoric morning of time itself. . . . [etc.] Conrad's "The Heart of Darkness," Chapter 2, paragraph 4 Going up that river was like traveling back to the...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. . . . [etc.] Page 187 ay ay strangle your heart o israfel winged with loneliness Poe's "Israfel" In...
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Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism

Marianne DeKoven - 1991 - 268 pagine
...Irigaray's terminology, as a passage to the maternal origin: "Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth. ... An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish"...
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Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism

Mark Bracher - 1993 - 224 pagine
...repression. First Marlow describes the sense of irrepressible life: "Going up the river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings" (48). Next, the sense of the heterogeneity between this force and the habitual sense of reality constructed...
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Solitude: A Philosophical Encounter

Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 pagine
...steamed up the Congo, the dark aeonic time of an evil dream: Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. . . . And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an...
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Archaeology Africa

Martin Hall - 1996 - 289 pagine
...(Î899) ... 'Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of itie woilcf, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees...great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was worm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of...
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