![]() ![]() Conrad went to sea just once more after returning from Africa, choosing to devote his time instead to writing literature. He returned to England in 1891 and checked into a hospital for malaria and dysentery. His encounter with the grim reality of European exploitation undermined his faith in commerce with developing countries. He undertook the 1,000-mile journey up the Congo River to Stanley Falls, where a great depression fell on him. The essay “Geography and Some Explorers” (1924) describes Joseph Conrad as a schoolboy amusing classmates by pointing to Africa on a map and declaring, “When I grow up I shall go there.” Eighteen years later, in 1890, Conrad obtained a post as steamboat captain with a trading company in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo). Analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darknessīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on September 21, 2022 ![]()
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