约瑟夫·康拉德是英国文学史上杰出的作家,漂泊人生、跨国经历及多元文化背景对他的思维和写作都有着极大的影响。离散多年的经历使康拉德一生在追求自己的身份的同时,又形成了矛盾敏感的性格,这体现在他的小说《黑暗的心》当中。本文从康拉德的代言人马洛对非洲、非洲人和帝国主义叙事语言矛盾性的角度探究康拉德的矛盾情结。 Joseph Conrad is an outstanding writer in the history of British literature. His adventurous life, transnational experience and multicultural background have a tremendous impact on his thinking and writing. Discrete years of experience so that Conrad lived in pursuit of his identity at the same time, but also formed a sensitive character, which is reflected in his novel “Heart of Darkness.” This article explores Conrad ’s contradictory complex from the point of view of Conrad’ s spokesman Marlowe ’s language contradiction between African, African and imperialist narrative.