Au coeur des ténèbres

Extraordinary. A fever dream conjured with simple words.
It's not really about a bloke traveling to africa and it knows it.
It's an exploration of greed, of the massacres, of the boundless ego of horrible men. Of a lot more of course, the society that produces such men, the terrible darkness that breeds a kind of people not too dissimilar. It's a fascinating book worth reading again and again.