Heart of Darkness
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Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, in which sailor Charles Marlow tells the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African
Heart of Darkness was first published as a three-part serial story in Blackwood's Magazine.
Belgian river station on the Congo River, 1889
The Roi des Belges ('King of the Belgians'—French), the Belgian riverboat Conrad commanded on the upper Congo, 1889
![Arthur Hodister [fr] (1847–1892), who Conrad's biographer Norman Sherry has argued served as one of the sources of inspiration for Kurtz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Arthur_Hodister_%281847-1892%29.jpg/500px-Arthur_Hodister_%281847-1892%29.jpg)
Arthur Hodister [fr] (1847–1892), who Conrad's biographer Norman Sherry has argued served as one of the sources of inspiration for Kurtz
Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)
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Kurtz is a fictional character in Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness. A European ivory trader in Central Africa and commander of a trading post, he monopolizes his position as a demigod am
Heart of Darkness
…location of the large and economically important Congo River—was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. Marlow is given an assignment to find Kurtz, an ivory trader working on a trading station far up the river, who has "gone native" and is the object of Marlow's expedition. Central to Conrad's…
Ivory trade in East Africa around 1890.
Boris Karloff (photo from 1957) played Kurtz in 1958.