Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo (TRIH ep 541)
1899 · Resource
“The horror! The horror!” Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ - the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’ - is one of the most celebrated literary works of all time, though now increasingly contentious.
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Around 1899
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Dreyfus Affair (1894)
- Boxer Rebellion (1899)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Einstein's miracle year (Annus Mirabilis) (1905)
- Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)