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Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of Heart of Darkness is not the heads on pikes or almost hallucinatory insights into the nature of evil but the fact that the novel was, in essence, the distillation of real events that Conrad had witnessed or heard about during his eight years working as a steamboat captain in the Congo.
The narrator Marlow, of course, was Conrad's alter ego. Kurz, according to Adam Hochschild in King Leopold's Ghost was modeled on Captain Léon Rom, a station chief at Stanley ...more
The narrator Marlow, of course, was Conrad's alter ego. Kurz, according to Adam Hochschild in King Leopold's Ghost was modeled on Captain Léon Rom, a station chief at Stanley ...more
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