Phil Mongredien on Joseph Conrad's classic novel of postcolonial corruption
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| Marlon Brando plays Kurtz in Apocalypse Now! Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness |
Published in
The Observer on Sunday, Phil Mongredien revisits the dark and troubling landscape of Joseph Conrad's
Heart of Darkness, a short novel famously adapted in Francis Ford Coppola's
Apocalypse Now!. For Mongredien, Conrad's text offers 'as powerful a condemnation of imperialism as has ever been written, and still a deeply unsettling read more than a century on'. [
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Source: Phil Mongredien, 'Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad – review', The Observer, 23 January 2011
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