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Heart of Darkness

American  

noun

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


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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Kai fled the scene, while I fell into the Heart of Darkness of Google spirals.

From The Guardian Sep. 16, 2019

But when it comes to the remarkable fact that, in the company of a charismatic but volcanic man, she apparently lived through a modern-day version of Heart of Darkness?

From Slate Jul. 30, 2019

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

But as the forest, in a process out of Heart of Darkness, stripped away the layers of civilization, they became indistinguishable from their neighbors.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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