Stalker (1979 film) of the "Time Out Film Guide" has compared "Stalker" to Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", also released in 1979, and argued that "as a journey to the heart of darkness" "Stalker" looks "a good deal more persuasive than Coppola's." As well, "Slant Magazine" reviewer Nick Schager has praised the film as an "endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness". In Schager's view "Stalker" shows "something akin to the essence of what man is made of: a tangled knot of memories, fears, fantasies, nightmares, paradoxical impulses, and a yearning for something that's simultaneously beyond our reach and yet intrinsic to every one
Heart of Darkness the subject seems comic, but isn't. The tale was first published as a three-part serial, February, March and April 1899, in "Blackwood's Magazine" (February 1899 was the magazine's 1000th issue: special edition). Then later, in 1902, "Heart of Darkness" was included in the book "" (published on 13 November 1902, by William Blackwood). The volume consisted of "Youth: a Narrative", "Heart of Darkness" and "The End of the Tether" in that order. For future editions of the book, in 1917 Conrad wrote an "" where he, after denying any "unity of artistic purpose" underlying the collection, discusses each of the