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Secret agent. According to the West
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This publication allows you to take a fresh look at the classic of English literature Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), who is known to Russian readers as a marine painter and author of adventure novels set in exotic countries. Conrad's personality is unique in its own way: a Pole by origin, he, not knowing English in childhood, masterfully mastered it and became not only a British captain of the merchant fleet, but then also a writer, whose adventurous psychological novels prepared the emergence of European modernism. His skill was recognized even by such an esthete as Henry James. It is no less paradoxical that the author, who declared hostility to everything Russian (to Russian literature, Russian language, Russian God-seeking, to the Russian revolutionary idea), at the very peak of his creativity creates two novels - “Secret Agent: A Simple Story” (1907 ) and “In the View of the West” (1910), united precisely by the Russian theme, in the interpretation of which Conrad largely follows F.M. Dostoevsky. In both novels we find intense intrigue, colorful characters, a deep psychological analysis of the adherents of terror, a love theme, and criticism of modern Western civilization from the standpoint of a kind of messianism. In The Secret Agent, a novel that was highly valued by Thomas Mann, A man from the London “underground”, recruited by the embassy of an eastern power (meaning the Russian Empire), was brought out and forced, under pressure from his “curator” from the embassy, to organize the explosion of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich - for the sake of the international fight against terror, to portray an attack on the very foundations of Western civilization and science. Conrad describes in detail how the police follow the trail of the criminal and what conflicts arise among the police officials themselves in connection with the disclosure of this secret; paints with rich colors portraits of anarchists, the family tragedy of the title character, who turns out to be a characteristic Conradian double: both an antihero and a hero “on the contrary.” This sophisticated psychological novel is often considered Conrad’s most striking satirical work; it is permeated with irony and black humor. In the novel “In the Eye of the West,” the action begins in St. Petersburg (terrorist explosion of the gendarme General de P.; the plot is based on a real event - the murder of a minister Internal Affairs and the chief of the Corps of Gendarmes Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve on July 1528-1904, XNUMX in St. Petersburg by a twenty-five-year-old student-terrorist from the Yevno Azef gang Yegor Sozonov), and continues in Geneva, among fanatical emigrant revolutionaries (the prototypes of the characters are Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin , Prince Pyotr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Sergei Mikhailovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, Sofya Lvovna Perovskaya, Yevno Fishel Azev (aka Evgeny Filippovich Azev) and other Russian anarchists, populists, revolutionaries), where a student recruited by the police was sent from Russia. Despite the picturesque external outline of events , the real theme of Conrad's novels is the tragedy of a loner who is overcome by mental suffering or pangs of conscience, the fatal game of man with fate, the fatal loss of the innocence of the spirit, the curse of gold, the crisis of positivism, the precariousness of existence, the decline of Europe, the deep confrontation between West and East, man and woman, chaos and order.
See also:
- All books of the publisher Ladomir
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Literary monuments
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| ISBNs | 978-5-86218-500-3 |
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| The weight | 1,1 kg |
| Size | 170 × 220 mm |
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