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Heart of Darkness

By Joseph Conrad

      ... Yes, this is the story that inspired director Francis Ford Coppola's epic film, Apocalypse Now. The darkly pessimistic novel, produced in 1902, closely resembles events in Joseph Conrad's own trip up the Congo River when he was a young man. It describes the narrator's journey to the interior of Africa and his terrible fascination with an evil man who has dominated the natives in the area.

A selection: ". . . here the dwellings were gone, too. Still I passed through several abandoned villages. There's something pathetically childish in the ruins of grass walls. Day after day, with the stamp and shuffle of sixty pair of bare feet behind me, each pair under a 60-lb. load. Camp, cook, sleep, strike camp, march. Now and then a carrier dead in harness, at rest in the long grass near the path, with an empty water-gourd and his long staff lying by his side. A great silence around and above. Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild..."

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