![]() ![]() It has since been referred to by many authors and poets. It was published as a complete novella in 1904. Heart of Darkness first appeared in a three-part series in Blackwood Magazine in 1899. But the geographical, as well as biographical, vagueness of the novel-which is one of its most artistic, haunting characteristics-make it almost impossible to pin down these details for sure. Many speculations have been made about the identity of various characters, such as the Manager, or Kurtz, most recently and perhaps most accurately in Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost. The presence of ill characters in the novella illustrates the fact that Heart of Darkness is, at least in part, autobiographical. Conrad gave up this mission because an illness forced him to return to England, where he worked on his novella almost a decade later. He captained a ship that sailed down the Congo River. Heart of Darkness is based in part on a trip that Conrad took through modern-day Congo during his years as a sailor. A novella, Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad’s most famous work and a foundational text on the subject of colonialism. ![]()
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