Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in some individuals.
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[The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest] ***(Wordsworth Classics, 5 January 1998, first published 1902, paperback, 80 pages, bought from Amazon, Popsugar 2018 Reading Challenge, a book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get round to)
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Just to be clear, this book action contains three stories but I only read Heart of Darkness.
I must be one of the only few people who has never seen the movie Apocalypse, Now. I've heard of it though and the story that inspired it. I really enjoyed Heart of Darkness. It's quite a dark and disturbing tale that unsettled me. I can understand why it's so well thought of. Kurtz is a fantastic characters and as disturbing as hell. The hold he has over the African natives around him is unsettling at best and downright dark and unhealthy at most. They see him as a sort of diety and flock around him while his greed and lack of humanity increases. Heart of Darkness really unnerved and unsettled me.
