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The Secret Agent de Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent

Autor Joseph Conrad
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 dec 2012
By the time Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) produced this novel in 1907, terrorism had torn its way through London: Victoria station had been partially destroyed, the House of Commons damaged, and Scotland Yard attacked with dynamite. Conrad's story is set in 1886, at the height of these troubles, and was inspired by the 1894 attempt to bomb Greenwich Observatory. Written just after Nostromo (1904), it is a marked departure from Conrad's usual seafaring form and plunges the reader into the claustrophobic, grimy world of late nineteenth-century London. Mr Adolf Verloc - anarchist, spy, and purveyor of pornographic material - heads a cast of shadowy characters all affected directly or indirectly by the anarchist organisation to which he belongs. Although critics acknowledged its power, the novel and its dark subject matter were uneasily received in Conrad's lifetime. This reissue of the first edition confirms the book's place as a classic of twentieth-century fiction.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108060394
ISBN-10: 1108060390
Pagini: 454
Dimensiuni: 145 x 222 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Joseph Conrad sailed through distant seas and turned those journeys into stories of moral tension and inner conflict. Born in 1857 in Poland, he later wrote in English, drawing on his life as a sailor to shape his fiction. A deep interest in human nature and the limits of morality guided his philosophy, often exploring darkness beneath the surface of civilization.Atmosphere and psychological depth define the core of his work. In works such as Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, he explored guilt, honor, and the fragile boundary between order and chaos. Layered storytelling reveals how individuals confront isolation, responsibility, and the consequences of their choices.Enduring influence has made him a central figure in modern literature. Writers and critics have long admired his narrative style and exploration of moral ambiguity. Today, his work remains widely read, valued for its intensity, complexity, and lasting insight into the human condition.

Descriere

Originally published in 1907, this classic novel is an exploration of terrorism and anarchism in late nineteenth-century London.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

At first, Joseph Conrad did not dare to call this book a novel. He traveled to Montpellier in February 1906 with his small family, telling himself that he was composing a short story, entitled 'Verloc', the name of the central character. As always, he wrote slowly, in a stubborn mood of exasperation an uncertainty, laboring in a foreign language.

Recenzii

The Secret Agent is set in the seedy world of Adolf Verloc, a storekeeper and double agent in late-Victorian London who pretends to sympathize with a group of international anarchists but reports on their activities to both the Russian embassy and the British government. As he is drawn further into a terrorist bombing plot, his family also becomes involved, with devastating consequences. Based on a real-life failed anarchist plot, The Secret Agent is both intimately engaged with its historical moment and profoundly relevant today.
This new Broadview Edition helps to recreate the historical context that informed Conrad’s preoccupations with global terrorism, human degeneration, the relativity of time, and the position of women.

“Tanya Agathocleous’s edition of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, a tale of espionage in the age of ennui, is an excellent, important, and timely addition to the Broadview list. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the novel uncannily speaks to a range of concerns that continue to preoccupy us—metropolitanism and cosmopolitanism, political terror, degeneracy and the “ends” of history, the collapse of boundaries between domestic and public life, the State’s intrusion into the lives of its citizens—issues that insist on a deep and careful understanding of their historical antecedents. Professor Agathocleous has judiciously selected materials from Conrad’s moment that will effectively immerse students in the social, political, and intellectual milieu of Conrad’s novel.” — Joseph McLaughlin, Ohio University
“An outstanding edition. First-time readers will welcome the eloquent introductory essay, which places The Secret Agent in the context of both Victorianism and modernism, as well as the very useful supplementary materials on anarchism and degeneration. And those already familiar with the novel will be prompted to re-read it in light of Agathocleous’s claim that Conrad, along with his New Woman contemporaries, is exploring marriage and the condition of women as well.” — Amanda Claybaugh, Columbia University