"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

Elimination of all the brute is short and distracting; Sven Lindqvist reveals reality and moral belief that we almost completely suppress. As the authors suggest, this book breaks our own image, but more importantly, it hurts is the relevance of Conrad 's "dark center" to his thoughts in today' s world - again

The title of this book is taken from Joseph Conrad's 1902 classic novel - The Heart of Darkness. Among them, the main character Kurtz travels to Africa and brings progress and culture to the uncontaminated continent. He was sent to Africa as an ivory procurement agent, and as the story evolved, the reader faced a fantastic atrocity of colonial rule. Works of Conrad intertwine the theme of "light of civilization" and "theme of barbaric darkness", so that Cruz surrounds his chaos and confusion, so make the reader aware of the hollowness of these phrases. Sven Lindqvist developed this theme by tracing the history of the European colonial empire and putting it in a sentence "to destroy all beasts". He insists that the expansion of Europe and the extinction strategy adopted are the facts we want to forget. We believe that the Holocaust is a historical disorder and contaminates the progress and enlightenment paths that the Western society has brought to the world. But as the authors point out, the customary and political precedents in Europe will lay the foundation for the atrocities of World War II as all Europeans contributed to the production of Kurz. What Africa did will also be repeated in Europe - we know this, what we are missing is the courage to face some of the things we know and draw some conclusions

The book reaches the climax by pointing to the Holocaust, but people do not need to see the same principles applied today in the world; "heart of darkness" applies to all countries, cultures and ideologies. "Destroy all beasts" is a very powerful book.

When I started this monthly blog, I wanted to emphasize past and present books that fulfilled the requirements. For me, this is absolutely the eradication of all beasts: the origin of the odyssey of the dark heart and the genocide of Europe. In our childhood there are two huge underground magnets: 90% of genocide of former American residents - long-standing ethnic myths still by historical massacre - still the slavery itself and import slaves Proof that people and countries stop repeating the patterns of childhood until they are inspected, insighted, new consciousness is discovered, recognized and demagnetized, or until they no longer feel like home. I do not think. I think that we will become stronger in broken places so that the body creates scratches to protect the wounds.

It is an exploratory study of the dark history of Europe and the origin of genocide in Africa. Using Joseph Conrad's Dark Heart as his starting point, Swenlinger Quest brought us through colonial history and intertwined with contemporary travel. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, the writer revealed the roots of African genocide by reviewing the walks of African explorers, missionaries, politicians, and historians and traveling in the Sahara desert. As Lindqvist suggests, fantasies are not only superiority of white people but also actual extinctions - "purification" of the so-called small ethnic earth - European colonialism and a race that eventually led to massacre of Europe A deep understanding of discrimination

Selected by a new internationalist as one of the best books of 1998, it is called 'enthusiasm-based criticism for social justice, beautiful written integration of cultural history and travel writing'. His view on the past and his essential contribution to literature on African colonies and genocide in Europe