In Other Works
The character of Kurtz has been open to literary discussion since Heart of Darkness was published in 1902.
Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now centers on the protagonist's mission to find and kill the renegade Colonel Kurtz, based on Conrad's character, who has gone rogue far up a river, deep in the Southeast Asian jungle. The 2012 video game Spec Ops: The Line, another modernized loose adaptation of Heart of Darkness (set in a ruined Dubai), has a similar Kurtz figure named Colonel John Konrad.
Timothy Findley's 1993 novel Headhunter features Kurtz's escape from Heart of Darkness and subsequent reign of terror over the city of Toronto as the psychiatrist-in-chief at the Parkin Institute.
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