Kurtz, the mysterious, sinister head of an important trading post, serves as the linchpin to this much-studied tale about the capacity of one nation to brutalize another for wealth and sport.ĭiscover a discussion guide for this and other books on the list from the Great Books Foundation. In the African interior, he sees what the European traders have done to local inhabitants, enslaving and butchering them without cause. The book’s protagonist, a sailor named Charles Marlow, pilots a boat on the Congo River for a Belgian ivory-trading firm known simply as the Company.
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) reveals the monstrous truth of European control and influence in the Congo region of Africa during the height of colonialism.
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