#08-300: Lord Jim

"Lord Jim" and Jewel in a publicity still from the 1925 film version (Wikimedia)

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Note: Conrad's anti-hero Jim is, like Kurtz in Heart of Darkness, a European who gets tangled up in local affairs, with tragic results.

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Get Ready: What benefits--and what difficulties--might be experienced by a person living in a culture other than the one he was born in--a "foreign" culture?

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#08-065: Heart of Darkness

Belgian river station on the Congo River
(Wikipedia)

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Note: Joseph Conrad's novella about a mad trader in Africa is the acknowledged inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's landmark film Apocalypse Now. Let's read the original tale.

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Get Ready: What, if anything, do you know about the film Apocalypse Now?

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