Published in 1902, '''''Heart of Darkness''''' is a short novel by [[Joseph Conrad]]. The narrator, Marlow, describes a voyage down the [[Congo]] into [[Africa]] for a British company, in search of a renegade military colonel named Kurtz. The novel is notable for its extraordinary denseness and the richness of the allusions and imagery created by Conrad.
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Published in 1902, '''''Heart of Darkness''''' is a short novel by [[Joseph Conrad]]. The narrator, Marlow, describes a voyage down the [[Congo]] into [[Africa]] for a British ivory company, in search of a renegade company man named Kurtz. The novel is notable for its extraordinary denseness and the richness of the allusions and imagery created by Conrad.