" For 10 points, identify this author of a story about Marlow's journey into the Congo, Heart of Darkness.
This author recalled learning English from his father, a Shakespeare translator, in his memoir A Personal Record. While smuggling guns to Venezuela, he met a sailor named Dominic Cervon, who inspired a title character entrusted with Charles Gould's silver, (*) Nostromo. In another of his novels, repairs to a river-steamer delay the discovery of human heads and a murderous ivory trade, which ends when Kurtz whispers "the horror, the horror." For 10 points, identify this author of a story about Marlow's journey into the Congo, Heart of Darkness.
This author recalled learning English from his father, a Shakespeare translator, in his memoir A Personal Record.
Joseph {Conrad} [or {Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski}]