Independently Published

Heart of Darkness Independently Published

The novel focuses on a sailor named Charlie Marlow, who narrates a journey he made years ago along a tropical river, in search of a certain Kurtz, the head of an ivory farm that throughout the novel acquires a symbolic character and ambiguous. The first two thirds of the novel narrate Marlow's journey from London to Africa, and up the river, until he reached the ivory collection base where an employee of the Belgian company that hired him is found. That employee, named Kurtz, has been enormously successful in the ivory trade, but it has made him the envy of other colleagues. Marlow intuits that Kurtz has broken with all the limits of social life as it is known in Europe, which repels and attracts him at the same time.