"Well there is an assumption there that Conrad's...Heart of Darkness is great art and I don't accept that. Great art flourishes on problems or anguish or prejudice. But the role of the writer must be very clear. The writer must not be on the side of oppression. In other words there must be no confusion. I write about prejudice; I write about wickedness; I write about murder, I write about rape: but I must not be caught on the side of murder or rape. It is as simple as that."
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Chinua Achebe in Conversations with James Baldwin edited by Louis H. Pratt and Fred L. Standley (1989)
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Joseph Conrad
1857 – 1924
britischer Schriftsteller
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