康拉德的小说《黑暗的中心》讲述了19世纪下半叶欧洲殖民者在非洲大陆殖民的状况。处于普遍的信仰危机的欧洲人,只能依靠社会秩序给予个体归属感和道德约束。小说中的克兹,这位典型的殖民者,在远离欧洲文明的非洲丛林中,在没有社会力量的约束下,获得了个体绝对的自由,同时也经历了人性的堕落。徘徊在黑暗中心的克兹始终没有在社会与自我之间做出选择。 Conrad’s novel The Dark Center tells the story of European colonists colonizing the continent in the second half of the 19th century. Europeans in a crisis of universal faith can only rely on social order to give their individuality and moral restraint. In the novel, Cz, a typical colonialist, gained the absolute freedom of individuals under the constraint of social forces in the African jungle far from European civilization, and also experienced the fall of human nature. Cox, hovering in the dark, has never made a choice between society and self.