ISBN: 1853260657
Godina izdanja: 1993
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
Wordsworth, 1993
269 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Wordsworth Classics)

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London`s Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be `a simple tale` proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats, and London`s fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.

Based on the text which Conrad`s first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad`s great London novel as the realization of a `monstrous town,` a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and savage butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad`s narrative techniques.

Joseph Conrad`s dark satire on English society

In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verloc must deal with the repercussions of his actions. While rooted in the Edwardian period, Conrad`s tale remains strikingly contemporary, with its depiction of Londoners gripped by fear of the terrorists living in their midst.


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