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...Raoul Peck’s sombre, four-part documentary takes its title from the order given by the insane Colonel Kurtz at the close of Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness; it’s also the title of Sven Lindqvist...
...Mobutu Sese Seko was overthrown in 1997, but Laurent Kabila, promising reform, delivered little, and his son Joseph soon reverted to old ways....
...The title of that book and the series comes from Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness, a phrase written in a journal by its anti-hero westerner Kurtz, whose violent incursion into Africa is an obvious...
...“This is a high-cost insurance to put their [leaders] minds at ease,” says Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, a Washington based think-tank....
...As he emails Brussels Briefing: “In his novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad said it best: ‘All Europe contributed to the making of [the villainous ivory hunter] Kurtz.’...
...It becomes clear that Max, the book’s hyper-efficient, borderline-psychopathic anti-hero, is a modern version of Conrad’s Marlow and has his own Kurtz to face....
...The movie — inspired by Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness — followed US army captain Benjamin Willard’s mission upriver to locate and terminate US special forces colonel Walter Kurtz, who had gone...
...In this modern retelling of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), the part of the questing seaman Marlow is taken by Martin Louw (aka Marlouw), a club-footed Afrikaner saucepan salesman now living in...
...He is currently reading Joseph Stiglitz on inequality, a reminder of Johnson’s paternalistic Tory side which appeals to voters in an unequal society such as London....
...There is a portrait of a sinister figure who could be the King of the Belgians or a chiaroscuro Kurtz, and parallel maps of the Thames and the Congo and images of London....
...You could as justly argue, and probably should, that Kane is Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz....
...“Everybody’s focused now on the attacks at the application layer,” Mr Kurtz said, such as those taking advantage of flaws in Microsoft Word or Adobe Reader....
...Mr Kurtz said the attackers also used one of the most popular instant messaging programmes to induce victims to click on a link that installed spy software....
...’ve talked to a number of companies that weren’t necessarily wrapped up in this attack, where the chief information officers called and said: ‘We need to take a look inside our own house’,” said George Kurtz...
...Elster’s nihilism – “When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror” – echoes the last words of an earlier fictional imperialist fallen on hard times, Mr Kurtz in Joseph...
...Think of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Once a charismatic idealist, the flawed Kurtz spends too long in the jungle; he ends up wishing simply to “exterminate all the brutes”....
...A large, forceful man, with a shiny, bald head, José, now 85, bears a striking resemblance to Marlon Brando’s Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. He was less than enthused about the election....
...In his epigraph, Foden invokes Henry James and Joseph Conrad....
...Then he settles in England, changes his name to Joseph Conrad and publishes great novels about life, death and moral apocalypse. That is extraordinary enough....
...Michela Wrong is author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo...
...No longer the site of “the horror, the horror” - the words spoken by Mr Kurtz, Joseph Conrad’s elusive character in Heart of Darkness, set in the atrociously administered Congo Free State, personal property...
...The dying words uttered by Kurtz, anti-hero of Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness, were “The horror! The horror!” It was a cry of existential emptiness triggered by colonial Africa....
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