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
Youth (Conrad short story) called: the port was Muntok. Conrad became angry with him, calling Muntok 'a beastly hole'. The boats of the real ship reached the safety only after several hours, Marlow was a bit younger than Conrad, etc. 1898 (probably May) – Conrad begins writing "Youth" 3 June 1898 – Conrad finishes writing "Youth" September 1898 – "Youth" is first published in "Blackwood's Magazine" 13 November 1902 – the book volume "Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories" is published by William Blackwood – also contained the stories "Heart of Darkness" and "The End of the Tether" 1903 – First American edition