A novella by
Joseph Conrad. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, narrated by Marlow to his companions as they lie becalmed in the
London tidal estuary. It details an incident earlier in Marlow's life, a visit up the river
Congo to investigate the work of Kurtz
?, a Belgian trader in
ivory in the [Belgian Congo]
?.
The novel has been filmed a few times under the name Heart of Darkness; Francis Ford Coppola also based Apocalypse Now loosely on the novel.
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