Welcome to 2023! On Mondays this year, let’s discuss and have fun with books. No I’m not writing book reviews. But this website is for writers, and writers like books right? So let’s have FUN with books!
Week #49 – Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 1899
Sailor Charles Marlow, captain of a river steamboat for a Belgian ivory trade company, journeys up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, an ivory trader. Marlow encounters inefficiency and brutality in the Company’s stations. The native Africans have been forced into the Company’s service and exploited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness
You can read it here
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/219/219-h/219-h.htm
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Here's a fun animated summary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0ome5wvYPQ
The movie Apocalypse Now was influenced by this book, with the setting moved to during the Vietnam War
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/
The book would be considered racist if written today
https://theconversation.com/how-conrads-imperial-horror-story-heart-of-darkness-resonates-with-our-globalised-times-94723
https://warontherocks.com/2020/09/the-abiding-relevance-of-heart-of-darkness-for-those-who-wage-war/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/11/06/the-trouble-with-heart-of-darkness
There are two countries in Africa called “Congo”, separated by the Congo River. They are called the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the east side and the Republic of the Congo on the west side.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo
What's the difference between them?
https://www.timbuktutravel.com/blog/democratic-republic-of-the-congo
DR Congo is the second-poorest nation in the world, after Haiti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
Have you read Heart of Darkness? What did you think of it?
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