In Fiction
- Kurtz (Heart of Darkness), main character of Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness
- Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, the main antagonist of the film Apocalypse Now, played by Marlon Brando, which is based on the Conrad story, but in a Vietnam War setting
- Dr Kurtz, a character in Robert Ardrey's play Thunder Rock and the film based on the play.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.”
—Thomas M. Disch (b. 1940)