Short Story· 1899· Drama
Heart of Darkness: 2 recorded works trace back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
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Tayeb Salih's novel reverses Conrad's journey. Instead of a European travelling up the Congo into an Africa he sees as darkness, Mustafa Sa'eed, a Sudanese man, travels north to London and destroys the Englishwomen who treat him as an exotic fantasy, and the narrator's journey along the Nile answers Marlow's.
Chinua Achebe said he wrote Things Fall Apart, the first book of the trilogy, to answer European novels that showed Africans without history or voice, and in his 1975 lecture An Image of Africa he named Heart of Darkness as the archetype of that picture. The claim is about Things Fall Apart.
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Conrad drew Marlow's journey upriver from his own six months as a steamboat officer in the Congo Free State in 1890.