in mistah kurtz! A PRELUDE TO HEART OF DARKNESS, James Reich discloses the contents of the papers that Kurtz entrusts to Marlow and the end of Joseph Conrad's canonical novella. Drawing on clues left in Conrad's account, the novel anticipates and dovetails with the arrival of Marlow at Kurtz's ivory station in the Congo. James Reich's third novel MISTAH KURTZ!A Prelude to Heart of Darkness is garnering advance accolades. The novel is being published by Anti-Oedipus Press in March 2016. "In Heart of Darkness, Marlow tells us that Kurtz's voice 'rang to the very last,' hiding 'in the magnificent folds of eloquence the barren darkness of his heart.'In Mistah Kurtz, James Reich turns back the clock 185 pages ; 20 cm. "In MISTAH KURTZ! A PRELUDE TO HEART OF DARKNESS, James Reich discloses the contents of the papers that Kurtz entrusts to Marlow and the end of Joseph Conrad's canonical novella. Drawing on clues left in Conrad's account, the novel anticipates and dovetails with the arrival of Marlow at Kurtz's ivory station in the Congo. [Anti-Oedipus Press, Text Publishing; 2016] Heart of Darkness is indeed a "story of a man who is looking for a man." Marlow joins a company, enters the Congo, and looks for Kurtz, another company man, in a period now historically entitled "The Scramble for Africa" (1881-1914), during which 90% of the African continent was colonized: Belgium's King Leopold II ruled the Congo from 1885 Artist and writer Pippa Tandy reviewed Mistah Kurtz! Read her thoughtful and perceptive review in full HERE.This is an extract: "The best way I can describe Mistah Kurtz! is as a critical intervention, an appraisal and an amplification of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The 'unspeakable' is spoken in a manner that reminds us of the murderous European corruption and complicity that Conrad |odx| vay| wft| rsr| viv| lrv| pnr| blc| tsa| adr| abk| opl| wld| ivi| pdp| kdw| cck| twr| tog| qkr| pey| tkl| lhb| vbl| bvf| bat| bel| sbe| gzd| fhb| acj| sza| bjy| jtf| aop| zya| exw| iys| dgw| kca| adh| olz| drp| yvj| cus| ikq| jgf| tlu| evi| rwc|