![]() Kurtz’s time in the jungle has transformed him into a crazed warlord casting a cult-leader spell (“his intelligence was perfectly clear, but his soul had gone mad”). ![]() Marlow secured a job with a trading company hunting for ivory deep in an unnamed country and, on a doomed boat manned by tragically maltreated African cannibals and villainously buffoonish Europeans, he follows the river resembling “a snake uncoiled” deep into the wilderness, looking to save the “sick” ivory hunter Kurtz. The story is unchanged, rearing out like a modern-day myth told one night by a sailor, Marlow, to his crewmates. ![]() ![]() Conrad’s gnarled novella’s shifting and overloaded allegories are distilled down quite neatly in this haunting graphic adaptation by Kuper ( Kafkaesque). ![]()
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