· In , Conrad traveled on one of the first steamboats on the Congo River. The Roi des Belges had been constructed in out of parts imported from Europe, then Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is based on Conrad’s firsthand experience of the Congo region of West Africa. Conrad was actually sent up the Congo River to an inner station to rescue a company agent who died a few days later aboard ship. One of Conrad's most important voyages occurred in , when he sailed a steamboat up the Congo River in central Africa. Conrad was attracted to this region partly because of the adventure he thought it could offer him and (perhaps more importantly) because working in the Congo could earn him some much-needed money.
Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski on December 3, , in Berdichev (now Berdychiv), Ukraine. His parents, Apollo and Evelina Korzeniowski, were members of the Polish noble. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness attracts a particularly harsh brand of criticism for its allegedly racist depictions of African blacks in the Congo at the turn of the 20th century. Certain critics, including Lennard J. Davis, consider removing the novel from the literary teaching canon, because of the "sadness and weariness" it evokes. A good half of Conrad's published books, including the better-known ones such as Lord Jim () and An Outcast of the Islands () were set in Asian lands, notably in what are now Malaysia and Indonesia, with Heart of Darkness (), perhaps his most famous work, being set in the Congo and Nostromo () in South America.
In , Conrad traveled on one of the first steamboats on the Congo River. The Roi des Belges had been constructed in out of parts imported from Europe, then carried up the rapids on the. Joseph Conrad () grew up amid political unrest in Russian-occupied Poland. After twenty years at sea with the French and British merchant navies, he settled in England in Over the next three decades he revolutionized the English novel with books such as Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and especially Heart of Darkness, his. Conrad's experience in the Belgian-run Congo made him one of the fiercest critics of the "white man's mission." It was also, writes Najder, Conrad's most daring and last "attempt to become a homo socialis, a cog in the mechanism of society. By accepting the job in the trading company, he joined, for once in his life, an organized, large-scale.
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