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
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