What to read after Heart of Darkness?

- Joseph CONRAD is a British writer of Polish origin, born in 1857 and died in 1924. In 1874, in Marseille, Joseph Conrad began his maritime career, where he embarked as a moss on a sailboat. For almost four years, he did his apprenticeship in France and then entered the British merchant marine, where he remained for more than sixteen years. Conrad spoke with equal ease Polish, German, French and English. He decided to write in the language of his new homeland. In 1888, he embarked on the Otago sailboat which is his first and only command as captain. In 1890, recommended to Captain Albert Thys, administrator of the Congo Trade and Industry Company, he went to work as a steamer captain for the Société du Haut-Congo. In 1894, it is the end of his maritime career. Joseph Conrad has traveled extensively in Europe and the United States for his writing career. He did not have an easy life. He had suffered health problems and money. He has been classed as author of "novels of the sea," as well as a forerunner of existentialism. His characters are fallible, disenchanted, but never give up to face life. He left about twenty novels, a dozen news, memories and correspondences. His works have been adapted to cinema, TV and others. - HEART OF DARKNESS (published in 1899) is a short story by Joseph Conrad. This is the story of a trip on the Congo River in the heart of Africa. On a yacht immobilized in the Thames Estuary near Gravesend, England, in the expectation of high tide, narrator Charles Marlow tells his fellow ship the discovery of Black Africa which was for him a real initiatory journey. His story concerns the events that led to his appointment as captain of a steamboat for an ivory trading company. Marlow had taken a seat on a French ship bound for the African coast and then inside. A young British officer in the merchant navy, he had taken command of an old boat to go up the Congo River and go into the jungle in search of Kurtz, an ivory collector whose trading counter has no news. Highly symbolic apparitions: black men come down on all fours to lapping the water of the river, while in a landscape of desolation evoking a massacre, a white man appears in a light alpaca jacket, snow-white trousers and ankle boots. varnished. And a young Russian, looking just as disguised, beckons on the edge of the forest, dressed in a harlequin coat wonderfully neat! The death of Kurtz, fatal issue of the expedition, adds a kind of epilogue: the interview of Marlow, back in Europe, with the fiancée of the ivory collector. This death indeed does not surprise, having been early and widely announced. Immobilized in the estuary of the Thames, it can see in the distance this luminous space where the earth and the sky join.