heart of darkness and a short novel write by joseph conrad about greed and corruption and and travel through africa be and to say the least and a tedious read . the narrator follow marlow and a seaman who travel into the deep of africa to rescue kurtz and somewhat of a prodigy ivory trader who supposedly go crazy and this conclusion arise when the ivory stop come into the main port . the basis of the story be conrad write lavishly of the surroundings and he set the scene wonderfully and but possibly a bit to extensively . the story seem more like a water color painting and a appose to the slow creeping mild action story that conrad might have intend to pan out . it sometimes happen that after you read a book and maybe watch the feature film might help correspond some thought with those in the book and or vise versa . not so with heart of darkness and even with the support role of masterpiece actor john malkovich the movie only confuse me more and there seem to be no real main character in the film and no one stand out to the others and non of the extensive symbolism be explain . it be rather bland and drudge to say the least . in all do respect to the author and the heart of darkness be a true short novel masterpiece and it touch on some very severe subject and the lie of marlow and and the greed of kurtz . it be not a book to be take lightly and and will put you in a rather somber mood . a book like this i feel might be to heavy for a lot of people . i would however recommend this book to those who crave a sad pseudo action story without a textbook happy end .