For 10 points, name this Polish-born author of Nostromo who wrote of Marlow's trip down the Congo in search of Kurtz in Heart of Darkness.
A character in one of this man's novels is saddened when his unpublished manuscript Thirty Years of Misrule is used as wadding paper. Captain Mitchell and Dr. Monygham are imprisoned in another scene in that novel, in which Giorgio Viola accidentally shoots the protagonist, who partners with Martin Decoud. A Russian "harlequin" is encountered by the protagonist of another of his novels, who narrates that novel from on board the (*) Nellie. One of this man's novels centers on Giovanni Fidanza's adventures at Charles Gould's silver mine in Costaguana. His most famous novel contains a character who writes a report footnoted "Exterminate all the brutes!" and dies after whispering "The horror! The horror!" For 10 points, name this Polish-born author of Nostromo who wrote of Marlow's trip down the Congo in search of Kurtz in Heart of Darkness.
A character in one of this man's novels is saddened when his unpublished manuscript Thirty Years of Misrule is used as wadding paper.
Joseph Conrad [or Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski]