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Heart of DarknessHeart of Darkness
A sailor’s journey up the Congo to find the enigmatic ivory-trader Kurtz becomes a descent into the darkness of empire, and of the human soul.
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A short, hypnotic, profoundly uneasy book that put the violence of empire under a lamp before almost anyone else would. Its dread gets into your bloodstream.
SettingThe Congo, 1890s
At the height of European empire, the Congo was being stripped for ivory and rubber under one of colonialism’s cruellest regimes, while Europe told itself a story about bringing light to the dark.