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Under Western Eyes de Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

Autor Joseph Conrad Ilustrat de Alex Struik
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Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment; Conrad being reputed to have detested Dostoevsky. It is also, some say, Conrad's response to his own early life; his father was a famous revolutionary imprisoned by the Russians. This novel is considered to be one of Conrad's major works and is close in subject matter to The Secret Agent. It is damning indictment of the historical failures of revolutionary movements and ideals. Joseph Conrad (born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski(3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish novelist who wrote in English, after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties . He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781481220781
ISBN-10: 1481220780
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE

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'Whenever two Russians come together, the shadow of autocracy is with them...haunting the secret of their silences.'First published in 1911, Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student of philosophy who is uninvolved in politics or protest. Against his will he finds himself caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing directed against the Tsarist authorities. He is pulled in different directions - by his conscience and his ambitions, by powerful opposed political forces, but most of all by personal emotions he is unable to suppress. Set in St Petersburg and Geneva, the novel is in part a critical response to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment but it is also a startlingly modern book. Viewed through the 'Western eyes' of Conrad's English narrator, Razumov's story forces the reader to confront the same moral issues: the defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny, the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society, and the demands thrown up by the interplay of power and knowledge.This new edition is based on the first English edition text, and has a new chronology and bibliography. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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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