本文试图运用雅克·德里达的解构观点和希利斯·米勒的修辞解构法对约瑟夫·康拉德的小说《黑暗的心脏》进行分析。通过对此小说中寓言式叙事模式、间接的叙事传播链条、几经折射的叙事框架、全知叙述者的缺失、比喻的置换、自相矛盾的反讽以及词语的不确定性等方面的阐释,旨在揭示叙事之清晰、可靠的交流功能的不可能性,以及语言的不确定性和不稳定性,进而阐明此小说是一个自我消解的文本。 This thesis attempts to analyze the “dark heart” of Joseph Conrad’s novel by using Jacques Derrida’s deconstructionist view and George Lewis’s Miller’s rhetorical deconstruction. Through the explanation of the allegory narrative mode, the indirect chain of narrative communication, the refracted narrative framework, the omission of the omniscient narrator, the metaphorical substitution, the self-contradictory irony and the uncertainty of the word, Revealing the impossibility of a clear and reliable communication function of narration, as well as the uncertainty and instability of the language, thus clarifying that the novel is a self-digesting text.