The horror!"
A recurrent theme in this novel concerns the narrator's "fascination with the abomination." In this book, the narrator obsesses over finding rivets and refers to a certain city as a "whited sepulchre." The protagonist panics about warm blood in his shoes when caught in a heavy, white fog, and finds a note that tells to "Exterminate all the brutes." In this novel, a character who lives in a compound surrounded by heads on stakes dies after saying "The horror! The horror!" This anti-imperialistic novel is narrated by riverboat captain Marlow about his journey to retrieve Kurtz from the Belgian Congo. For 10 points, name this novel by Joseph Conrad.
A recurrent theme in this novel concerns the narrator's "fascination with the abomination.
Heart of Darkness