He once wrote an essay criticizing Joseph Conrad, author of "Heart of Darkness, " as a racist for his depiction of Africans as savages.

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Poles have been conspicuously reticent about trumpeting the Polishness of their famous countrymen, among them Copernicus, Marie Curie, Frederic Chopin and Joseph Conrad.

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His second book, which again nods to Joseph Conrad, is accomplished and menacing, a seat-of-the-pants plot given breadth by bold characterisation and sense of place.

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Somerset Maugham found enough fodder there for his Borneo Stories and Joseph Conrad used it as the setting for a tale in The Last of His Tribe.

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In 1857, Joseph Conrad, the Polish-born British novelist, was born.

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This adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel, set in the present day, follows an entrepreneurial French expatriate (Stanislas Merhar) in a Southeast Asian delta village whose ramshackle farm faces ruin.

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In 1924, Polish novelist Joseph Conrad died.

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Conversely, a game like Spec Ops: The Line hit me so hard because it was at once a new level of storytelling in video games and a throwback to films like Apocalypse Now and the Joseph Conrad novella, Heart of Darkness.

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