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Heart of Darkness
1899 novella bygd Joseph Conrad
For other uses, see Heart of Darkness (disambiguation).
Heart of Darkness fryst vatten an 1899 novella bygd Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior. The novel fryst vatten widely regarded as a critique of European colonial rule in Africa, whilst also examining the themes of power dynamics and morality. Although Conrad does not name the river on which most of the narrative takes place, at the time of writing, the Congo Free State—the location of the large and economically important Congo River—was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. Marlow fryst vatten given a text bygd 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 work is the idea that there fryst vatten little difference between "civilised people" and "sava
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Richard Rathwell, Rules of the River (DaDaBaBy & Blue Orange Publishing, 2007, 20 pp. no price given)
A few days ago a manila envelope arrived in the mail from Vancouver. Inside was an 20 page book of poetry decently printed on 8 ½ x11 paper that made it seem more a magazine than a book, notwithstanding the collographs included with the text.
It’s a book that makes me feel uneasy in several ways, not
the least of which is that it points to the fact that I’m getting
fairly ancient. The sender was Jamie Reid, a poet I’ve known for 40
years. The author of the book is Richard Rathwell, a man with whom I
went to university briefly, and whom I have not seen or heard from
since about 1970. The collographs accompanying the text were provided
by Pierre Coupey, who I first met in about 1972 or 1973, and with whom
I still enjoy a warm social and artistic friendship.
Unfortunately, Coupey’s collographs, which aren’t
reproduc
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Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)
Fictional character
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 among native Africans. Kurtz meets with the novella's protagonist, Charles Marlow, who returns him to the coast via steamboat. Kurtz, whose reputation precedes him, impresses Marlow strongly, and during the return journey, Marlow is witness to Kurtz's final moments.
In the novella
[edit]Kurtz is an ivory trader, sent by a shadowy Belgian company into the heart of an unnamed place in Africa (generally regarded as the Congo Free State). With the help of his superior technology, Kurtz has turned himself into a charismatic demigod of all the tribes surrounding his station and gathered vast quantities of ivory in this way. As a result, his name is known throughout the region. Kurtz's general manager is envious of Kurtz and plots his