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. |
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. |
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.