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Under Western Eyes de Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

Autor Joseph Conrad Introducere de David Greenstein
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 mai 2007
Under Western Eyes (1910) is a tale of two cities—St. Petersburg and Geneva—and of political and moral revolutions. It is one of Joseph Conrad’s most suspenseful works and his most politically and psychologically insightful. Set in 1904, it opens with an act Conrad calls “characteristic of modern Russia”: the assassination of a high official of the autocratic tsarist regime. Under Western Eyes probes deeply into that repressive society where unremitting tyranny provokes revolutionary terrorism. Published five years after Russia’s abortive 1905 Revolution, the novel clearly anticipates the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
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ISBN-13: 9780760783443
ISBN-10: 0760783446
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 mm
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția BookAnnex
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors, and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that Conrad's fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events. Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew, among other things, on his native Poland's national experiences and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world-including imperialism and colonialism-and that profoundly explore the human psyche.

Recenzii

Joseph Conrad's last overtly political novel, Under Western Eyes is considered to be one of his greatest works. Set in pre-Revolutionary Russia, the novel tells the story of a young student involuntarily involved in an assassination and explores themes of terrorism, surveillance, and the suffering of ordinary people caught up in political strife.The critical introduction and appendices to this Broadview Edition provide context for Conrad's political views, as well as Eastern European anarchism and terrorism. Appendices include Conrad's letters on the novel's composition, reviews of the novel, and contemporary accounts of a political assassination.
“A century after its publication, Under Western Eyes is as compelling and as relevant to our own age as it was to an earlier age of political terrorism. John Peters’ introduction and ample appendices offer a magisterial guide to the composition of this novel, which Conrad struggled to complete at the cost of his own mental health, and to the revolutionary struggles that were an integral part of the political, social, and intellectual crises of the decade leading up to the First World War. Like other Broadview Editions, which never skimp on the materials that make for a thorough understanding of the text, this edition of Under Western Eyes is the one to read.” — Sanford Schwartz, Pennsylvania State University
“This new edition of Under Western Eyes will significantly enhance our understanding of the novel. Peters’ introduction is lucid, informative, and extremely well written. The appendices are superbly chosen. Together, they clarify why and how Conrad wrote the novel, and why it was such a major challenge for him, artistically, personally, and psychologically. The scholarly apparatus is brilliantly done; it is concise, compelling, well written, and illuminating. Any and all readers of the novel, even those who think they already know it well, will benefit enormously from this edition.” — Stephen Ross, University of Victoria

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Joseph Conrad: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Under Western Eyes
Appendix A: Selected Letters
  1. To John Galsworthy (6 January 1908)
  2. To J.B. Pinker (7 January 1908)
  3. To John Galsworthy (30 November 1908)
  4. To Stephen Reynolds (18 December 1908)
  5. To Perceval Gibbon (11 or 18 September 1909)
  6. To Perceval Gibbon (19 December 1909)
  7. To John Galsworthy (22 December 1909)
  8. To J.B. Pinker (12 January 1910)
  9. To John Galsworthy (17 May 1910)
  10. To John Galsworthy (15 October 1911)
  11. To Edward Garnett (20 October 1911)
  12. To Olivia Rayne Garnett (20 October 1911)
  13. To Macdonald Hastings (24 December 1916)
Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews
  1. Anonymous, “Betrayal,” The Pall Mall Gazette (11 October 1911)
  2. [Edward Garnett], “Mr. Conrad’s New Novel,” The Nation (21 October 1911)
  3. Anonymous, “New Novels,” The Athenæum (21 October 1911)
  4. Anonymous, “Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad,” The Academy (2 December 1911)
  5. Frederic Taber Cooper, “The Clothing of Thoughts and Some Recent Novels,” The Bookman (December 1911)
  6. Anonymous, “Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad,” Catholic World (January 1912)
  7. Anonymous, “Recent Fiction and the Critics,” Current Literature (February 1912)
Appendix C: Contemporary Accounts of the Assassination of de Pleve
  1. Anonymous, “Assassination of M. De Plehve: A Bomb Hurled in St. Petersburg,” The Times (29 July 1904)
  2. Anonymous, “The Murder of M. De Plehve,” The Times (1 August 1904)
  3. Anonymous, “The Murder of M. De Plehve (From Our Russian Correspondents),” The Times (2 August 1904)
  4. Anonymous, “The Assassination of M. de Plehve,” The Illustrated London News (6 August 1904)
  5. From E.J. Dillon, The Eclipse of Russia (1918)
  6. From Boris Savinkov, Memoirs of a Terrorist (1931)
Appendix D: Illustrations of the Assassination of de Pleve
  1. Viacheslav Konstantinovich de Pleve, Russian Minister of the Interior
  2. Egor Sazanov, Assassin of de Pleve
  3. de Pleve’s Exploded Carriage (view one)
  4. de Pleve’s Exploded Carriage (view two)
Appendix E: The Central Committee of the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries, “To the Whole Russian Peasantry” (July 1904)
Appendix F: Joseph Conrad, “Autocracy and War” (1905)
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