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      • Conrad’s most famous novella, Heart of Darkness (adapted into Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now in 1979) is a fictional treatment of his experiences in Africa.
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  3. www.britannica.com › topic › Heart-of-DarknessHeart of Darkness | Summary, Characters, Analysis, & Facts

    Sep 13, 2024 · Heart of Darkness tells a story within a story. The novella begins with a group of passengers aboard a boat floating on the River Thames. One of them, Charlie Marlow, relates to his fellow seafarers an experience of his that took place on another river altogether—the Congo River in Africa.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Heart_of_DarknessHeart of Darkness - Wikipedia

    Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior.

    • Joseph Conrad, Alistair Maydon
    • 1899

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  6. bookbrief.io › books › heart-of-darkness-josephHeart of Darkness Summary - BookBrief

    Is Heart of Darkness based on a true story? Heart of Darkness is not based on a specific true story, but it is inspired by Joseph Conrad's own experiences as a steamboat captain in the Congo and the atrocities committed during European colonization of Africa.

  7. www.bbc.com › 20201027-the-real-heart-of-darknessAfrican Apocalypse: The real ‘heart of darkness’ - BBC

    Oct 28, 2020 · In the case of Heart of Darkness, that perspective comes from a seaman called Marlow who is sharing the story of his pursuit of Kurtz, a corrupted ivory trader who had gone Awol in the then...

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  8. theconversation.com › how-conrads-imperial-horrorHow Conrad’s imperial horror story Heart of Darkness ...

    May 22, 2018 · Although Conrad never met anyone quite like Kurtz in the Congo, the structure of Marlow’s story is based closely on his experiences as mate and, temporarily, captain of the Roi des Belges, a...

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  9. interestingliterature.com › 2021 › 08Heart of Darkness: Analysis and Themes - Interesting Literature

    Aug 3, 2021 · First published in 1899, Heart of Darkness – which formed the basis of the 1979 Vietnam war film Apocalypse Now – is one of the first recognisably modernist works of literature in English fiction. Its author was the Polish-born Joseph Conrad, and English wasn’t his first language (or even, for that matter, his second).

  10. literariness.org › 2022/09/21 › analysis-of-josephAnalysis of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness – Literary ...

    Sep 21, 2022 · Conrad’s most famous novella, Heart of Darkness (adapted into Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now in 1979) is a fictional treatment of his experiences in Africa. Charlie Marlow recounts the traumatic Congo expedition to four companions aboard the Nellie, a cruising yawl anchored in the Thames estuary.