Other editions of book The black heart of the darkness : A True Story : The black heart of the darkness : A True Story

The black heart of the darkness : A True Story author about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the core of Africa. Charles Marlow, the storyteller, recounts his story to companions on board a watercraft moored on the River Thames. This setting gives the casing to Marlow's account of his fixation on the ivory broker Kurtz, which empowers Conrad to make a parallel between what Conrad calls "the best town on earth", London, and Africa as spots of obscurity