Heart of Darkness

American  

noun

1. a short novel (1902) by Joseph Conrad.

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Heart of Darkness Cultural  

1. (1902) A short novel by Joseph Conrad. It concerns a seafarer, Marlow, who is sent to the interior of Africa in search of a “mad adventurer” named Kurtz. The book's title refers both to the location of the story and to the evil and darkness in people's hearts.

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Francis Ford Coppola based his 1979 film Apocalypse Now on a version of Conrad's story set during the Vietnam War. He released a newly edited version, Apocalypse Now Redux, in 2001.

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The resulting public pressure eventually forced Belgium's King Leopold II - Queen Victoria's cousin - to loosen his grip on the colony famously depicted in the novel Heart of Darkness.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2019

That song called "Heart of Darkness" I wrote with my friend Billy Harvey.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2018

They dont tell you how each post diagnosis blood test, doctor appointment, MRI, is a Heart of Darkness trip up the river towards fear anxiety stress and did i say fear!

From New York Times • May 12, 2016

The almost spectral character of Kurtz, from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, seems like one of the author’s most improbable figures.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2015

Dark of Heartness tiptoed into the Heart of Darkness.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy