Joseph Conrad in a "writers walk" commemorates Conrad's visits to Australia between 1879 and 1892. The plaque notes that "Many of his works reflect his 'affection for that young continent.'" In San Francisco in 1979, a small triangular square at Columbus Avenue and Beach Street, near Fisherman's Wharf, was dedicated as "Joseph Conrad Square" after Conrad. The square's dedication was timed to coincide with release of Francis Ford Coppola's "Heart of Darkness"-inspired film, "Apocalypse Now". In the latter part of World War II, the Royal Navy cruiser "HMS Danae" was rechristened ORP "Conrad" and served as part of the Polish Navy. Notwithstanding
Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) Josef Škvorecký's novel "The Engineer of Human Souls" Kurtz is seen as the epitome of exterminatory colonialism. James Reich's novel "Mistah Kurtz!" (Anti-Oedipus Press 2016) is a prelude to "Heart of Darkness" that presents meticulous and controversial solutions to the origins, mystery and messianic deterioration of Kurtz. Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) Kurtz is a central fictional character in Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness". A trader of ivory in Africa and commander of a trading post, he monopolises his position as a demigod among native Africans. Kurtz meets with the novella's protagonist, Charles Marlow, who returns him to the coast