Secret Agent: A Simple Story. From the West"s Point of View
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This publication allows a new look at the classic of English literature Joseph Conrad (1857.1929), which is known for a wide reader for the advantage of the author of naval and adventure novels, an amateur of exotic, the creator of strong plots and colorful types. Condrected Paradoxal personality: Pole in origin, masterfully mastered English feather, a durable sea wolf, who took a strong place in the elite of British literature, heir to Flaubert, Zola, Tekckery, Turgenev, who became a helicate of European modernism. No less paradoxically and the fact that the author declareling hostility to the whole Russian (to Russian literature, Russian language, Russian foreigners and the Russian revolutionary idea), on the peak of his creativity he writes two novels - "Secret Agent: A simple story (1907) and "In the view of the West" (1910), combined by the "Russian theme", which manifests itself not only in the plot, but also in the easily recognizable influence of "crimes and punishment" or "demons" F.M. Dostoevsky. Konrad does not change the usual format of an exciting story: here we will find both the firmware of the intrigue, and fanatical revolutionaries-terrorists, and spies recruited by the Russian Embassy, and grotesque villains, sewing on the foundations of Western civilization and science - planning the explosion of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich .. . But despite the bright external canvas of events, the genuine theme of the conrad novels is different: it is a single tragedy, whom the spiritual suffering or flour of conscience, the fatal game of a person with fate, the rocky loss of the innocence of the spirit, the curse of gold, the crisis of positivism, the scalance of being, "sunset of Europe ", deep confrontation of the West and East
Author:
Author:Konrad Joseph
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Drama
Series:
Series: Literary Monuments
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-86218-500-3
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