Near the end of this novel, the sailor Marlow finally meets the degraded Kurtz.
The protagonist of this novel wants to change his blood-soaked socks after seeing a dying helmsman who had once steered a ship in desperate need of rivets; that protagonist also discovers that the notes in "cipher" he found in a copy of Towson's Inquiry are Cyrillic letters written by a Russian dressed like a harlequin. This novel's author was called a "bloody racist" in Chinua Achebe's essay "An Image of Africa." One character in this novel ends one of his pamphlets with the note "Exterminate all the brutes!" and dies saying "The horror! The horror!" Near the end of this novel, the sailor Marlow finally meets the degraded Kurtz. For 10 points, name this novella by Joseph Conrad.
The protagonist of this novel wants to change his blood-soaked socks after seeing a dying helmsman who had once steered a ship in desperate need of rivets; that protagonist also discovers that the notes in "cipher" he found in a copy of Towson's Inquiry are Cyrillic letters written by a Russian dressed like a harlequin.
Heart of Darkness