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Published in 1902, '''''Heart of Darkness''''' is a short novel by [[Joseph Conrad]]. In it, a man named Marlow recounts a trip to [[Africa]], where he gradually learns about a very mysterious man named Kurtz, encountering many horrifying events along the way. ''Heart of Darkness'' is a harsh criticism of [[European]] [[imperialism]].

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.

 

''Heart of Darkness'' has been interpreted variously as a criticism of [[European]] [[imperialism]] or in casual support of it; the subject is not treated with any directness in the novel.  Marlow acts with casual racism and a typically unconscious European attitude as he ventures deep into the center of Africa - the titular "heart of darkness" by way of being the dark continent, the center of the unknown, and being filled with people with dark skin.  Famed African writer and critic Chinua Achebe argued that the novel dehumanizes the people of Africa, treating them as animals and scenery rather than characters in any real respect.

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