Marlow's role as narrator in Heart of DarknessWhether or not Marlow is Conrad has been discussed at length. Clearly, Marlow is both, at the same time as he is neither. Heart of Darkness is therefore not exclusively Marlow's story. And if we examine it for a moment as the creation of Marlow's anonymous audience member, it takes on a different coloring. The narrator's inclusion of Marlow's story in his perspective appears as a deliberate attempt on his part to frame the concrete world and man's involvement in it within a view that denies the reality of two. “Heart of Darkness” creates for us the visible surface of life, but in such a way that we never forget that this surface is a lie. This leads us to Kurtz, but in such a way that we never accept his idealism at face value. And this destruction of the two possible foundations of the self, foundations towards which all versions of Conrad's adventure tend, results in a radical transformation of the writing intention. It is no longer a form of adventure, an act by which man could ensure his positive existence. For the anonymous narrator, writing performs precisely the opposite function. It becomes a way of destroying any idea of ​​an act that could confer such an identity by destroying any belief in a reality toward which that act can be directed. Thus, for the narrator, Marlow's positive and creative journey must be placed in the context of a negationist darkness. it is for him to accept the insubstantiality of the self. It is accepting the fact that man can never transcend the conditional existence of his original, orphaned state, and it is this acceptance of his own insubstantiality which is the source of the story...... middle of paper .... ..these on the Thames.(19)(16) ã The classics of the world Joseph Conrad. Youth, Heart of Darkness, The End of Tether. Edited with an introduction by Robert Kimbrough. Introduction, notes, blog ã Robert Kimbrough-1984 Pages: 10 and 11. (17) ã The metaphysics of darkness. Royal Roussel. A study in the unity and development of Conrad's fiction.1971- The John's Hopkins Press by Baltimore and London Pages: 77, 78 and 79.(18) ã The classics of the world Joseph Conrad. Youth, Heart of Darkness, The End of the TetherEdited with an introduction by Robert Kimbrough. Introduction, notes, glossary ã Robert Kimbrough - 1984 Pages: 14, 15 and 23. (19) ã Heart of Darkness with the Congo Diary Introduction and notes ã Robert Hampson, 1995 Penguin Books Ltd, registered office: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England. Pages: 26 and 27.