heart of darkness's book is the masterpiece of epic modern adventure literature.< br/> Protagonist is Captain Marlowe, who's enrolled in order to travel through the darkest Africa and find a disappeared man, named Kurz. This one has been the big traded in dark business: commerce of slaves, of weapons, of everything. It would appear like a "legal criminal", according to the laws of the age. A man without any morality.
After a long research, Marlowe is able to find him.
At that point, Kurz is a sick man. A man destroyed by an unknown illness, that consumes him more and more.
Kurz has not much time in front of him: he'll die in that dark point of the darker continent, and will never see again his homeland, England.
So, Marlowe has nothing else to do than simply return to home. He has been sent to find Kurz by the man trading company, but the captain decides also to find the widow and talk to her.
He's not surprises to meet a cold woman, who doesn't show any particular feelings, about the husband's loss and departure.
Marlowe's experience is in the whole a big metaphor of western colonization adventure, and the capitalism final exodus, which corrupts human nature at its roots.