... the center of a map of Africa and said, "When I grow up I shall go there."" (Adler, 134). In 1889, Conrad did just that. He obtained command of a steamboat on the Congo River after going to Brussels then spent four months in the Congo. That was the most "traumatic experience of his life- and was the inspiration for one of his greatest short stories, Heart of Darkness. (Conrad) In that same ... Catholic Church in Canterbury. Heart of Darkness, Conrad's most controversial novel, is set in the Belgium Congo in the late 1800's. On May 29, 1885, King Leopold proclaimed himself as the "sovere...

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