Facts about Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
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Published in book form in 1902, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a novella of roughly 38,000 words, making it one of his shorter prose works.
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Chinua Achebe's 1975 essay An Image of Africa criticized Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as a racist text that dehumanizes Africans.
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Framed as a tale told aboard a boat on the Thames, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness uses a nested narrative structure with Marlow as the primary storyteller.
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The character Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is widely regarded as an influence on the character Colonel Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now.
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Originally serialized in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness draws on his own journey up the Congo River in 1890.