John Lyon has previously edited Conrad's Youth/Heart of Darkness/The End of the Tether for Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, and novels by Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and D. H. Lawrence.
发表于2024-06-03
The Secret Agent 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
It's ironic because it suppose to be serious but it's anything but serious. The absurdity and uselessness of the revolutionists, futility of political conspiracy. Conrad's works are not like Orwell, whose works are very clear-cut and readers can immediately...
评分It's ironic because it suppose to be serious but it's anything but serious. The absurdity and uselessness of the revolutionists, futility of political conspiracy. Conrad's works are not like Orwell, whose works are very clear-cut and readers can immediately...
评分It's ironic because it suppose to be serious but it's anything but serious. The absurdity and uselessness of the revolutionists, futility of political conspiracy. Conrad's works are not like Orwell, whose works are very clear-cut and readers can immediately...
评分It's ironic because it suppose to be serious but it's anything but serious. The absurdity and uselessness of the revolutionists, futility of political conspiracy. Conrad's works are not like Orwell, whose works are very clear-cut and readers can immediately...
评分It's ironic because it suppose to be serious but it's anything but serious. The absurdity and uselessness of the revolutionists, futility of political conspiracy. Conrad's works are not like Orwell, whose works are very clear-cut and readers can immediately...
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'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.' Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be 'A Simple Tale' proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous town', a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery.
感觉结局有点深意,professer was death walking among the people...教授研制的炸弹失效是导致史蒂夫死亡的主因,也导致了伍洛克的行动失败,间接暴露了伍洛克的家,温妮也知道消息在惊慌复仇中杀死了伍洛克……因果报应
评分authur's intention前半段感觉藏得挺深,到后面爆的一发不可收拾,重点体现就在winnie上 - 可怕,过火。另外我要是没读错,作者应该是反futurism的吧?
评分多年不读康拉德,晚期从航海小说转向政治小说后读来仍然夹带熟悉的眩晕感。最后三章精彩极了,喜剧式的政治波澜因为一场意外implode成为家庭悲剧,康拉德笔下Stevie和马车夫的对话写得多温柔,Mrs. Verloc最后的爆发就多快意。第11章漫长的杀人过程可谓心理描写的顶峰,之后Mrs. Verloc和Ossipon间的博弈也让人紧张又兴奋。读小说开心!
评分4.5 比Heart of Darkness好看,打碎的敘事結構和黑暗壓抑的倫敦都充滿電影感
评分看上去是对anarchist温良搞笑的政治嘲讽,其实揭露了现代世界黑暗空洞的内核。伦敦街头涌动的multitudes在无尽时间中冷漠盲目地前行,让人不寒而栗。我和这个充满恶意的无机世界之间只隔了一层薄薄的玻璃而已,打破我和他人之间的玻璃不再是和谐社会的理想,而只能带来惊愕、无助和绝望。
The Secret Agent 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书