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520    Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Polish 
       novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, 
       about Charles Marlow’s life as an ivory transporter down 
       the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is “a mighty
       big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an 
       immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body
       at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail 
       lost in the depths of the land.” In the course of his 
       travel in central Africa, Marlow becomes obsessed with Mr.
       Kurtz.Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European 
       colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness 
       that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters: the darkness of 
       the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the Europeans' cruel
       treatment of the African natives, and the unfathomable 
       darkness within every human being for committing heinous 
       acts of evil. The story is a complex exploration of the 
       attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian 
       versus a civilized society and the attitudes on 
       colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of 
       European imperialism.The novella Heart of Darkness has 
       been variously published and translated into many 
       languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of 
       Darkness as the sixty-seventh of the hundred best novels 
       in English of the twentieth century.Joseph Conrad has 
       acknowledged that Heart of Darkness is in part based on 
       his own experiences during his travels in Africa. At the 
       age of 31, he was appointed by a Belgian trading company 
       to serve as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River in
       1890. Conrad, who was born in Poland and later settled in 
       England, had eagerly anticipated the voyage, having 
       decided to become a sailor at an early age. While sailing 
       up the Congo river from one station to another, the 
       captain became ill, and Conrad assumed command of the boat
       and guided the ship to the trading company's innermost 
       station. He reportedly became disillusioned with 
       Imperialism after witnessing the cruelty and corruption 
       perpetrated by the European companies in the area, and the
       novella's main narrator, Charlie Marlow, is believed to 
       have been based upon him.Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a 
       Polish author who wrote in English after settling in 
       England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but 
       always considered himself a Pole.Conrad is regarded as one
       of the greatest novelists in English, although he did not 
       speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties 
       (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and 
       novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials 
       of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent 
       universe. He was a master prose stylist, who brought a 
       distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English 
       literature.While some of his works have a strain of 
       romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist 
       literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters
       have influenced many authors, including D. H. Lawrence, F.
       Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, 
       George Orwell, Graham Greene, Malcolm Lowry, William 
       Golding, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, Italo 
       Calvino, Gabriel García Márquez, J. G. Ballard, John le 
       Carré, V.S. Naipaul, Hunter S. Thompson, J.M. Coetzee and 
       Salman Rushdie.Films have been adapted from or inspired by
       Conrad's Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Heart
       of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, The 
       Duel, Victory, The Shadow Line, and The Rover.         
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