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‘Kurtz — Kurtz — that means short in German — don’t it? Well, the name was as true as everything else in his life — and death. He looked at least seven feet long.’ (‘Heart of Darkness’, p. 134)
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H. G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (London: Jonathan Cape, 1934, 1963).
See Edward Said, Conrad’s Struggle with,Narrative (Providence, Brown University Press, 1974).
See Frantz Fanon, Peaux.Noires, Masques Blancs (Paris: Le Seuil, 1952).
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Darras, J. (1982). Short-Cuts. In: Joseph Conrad and the West. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26510-7_6
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