Conrad's jarring juxtapositions of sound and silence in Heart of Darkness emphasize the epistemological and ontological concerns of a narrative the stands at the threshold of the modern information age, in which the sounds of the world are being rapidly reorganized into an electroacoustical coding and decoding of information that collapses traditional notions of the communicative availability of the aural. While not as immediately engaging as the novel's fraught visual imagery, the soundscape of Heart of Darkness shapes Marlow's – and the reader's – understanding of his African journey.

中文翻译：

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“垂死的振动”

康拉德在《黑暗的心》中将声音和寂静并置在一起，强调了处于现代信息时代门槛的叙事的认识论和本体论问题，在这个时代，世界的声音正在迅速重组为信息的电声编码和解码这打破了听觉交流可用性的传统观念。虽然不像小说中充满视觉意象那样直接引人入胜，但《黑暗之心》的音景塑造了马洛——以及读者——对他的非洲之旅的理解。