It stands in stark contrast to Joseph Conrad's 1902 novella Heart of Darkness, which follows an Englishman named Marlow who embarks on a journey up the Congo. Though Achebe was attracted to Conrad ...

Before you read Peter Kuper's graphic novel version of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," take a moment ... people who background the story of Marlow, an adventurer who rides a river into ...

Heart of Darkness is the story of an English seaman, Charles Marlow, who is hired by a Belgian company to captain a river steamer in the recently established Congo Free State. Almost as soon as he ...

While Marlow intones, "There was a stillness ... Sponsor Message It's tactics like this that make Kuper's work a great take on Heart of Darkness. He doesn't just retell the book.

2. HEART OF DARKNESS BEGINS AND ENDS IN THE UK. Though it recounts Marlow's voyage through Belgian Congo in search of Kurtz and is forever linked to the African continent, Conrad’s novella ...