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Heart of Darkness is a novella by British writer Joseph Conrad. Told in the first person by an unnamed character listening to a long narration by a mariner named Marlowe, the story deals with Marlow's time as a steamer captain on the Congo River and his encounters with an ivory trader named Mr. Kurtz.