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Under Western Eyes (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2007
by Conrad, Joseph
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- Title Under Western Eyes (Penguin Classics)
- Author Conrad, Joseph
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Condition New
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, New York, New York
- Date 2007-12-18
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # OTF-S-9780141441948
- ISBN 9780141441948 / 0141441941
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 7.85 x 6.56 x 0.95 in (19.94 x 16.66 x 2.41 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Revolutionaries, College students
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Under Western Eyes traces a sequence or error, guilt, and expiation. Its composition placed such demands upon Conrad that he suffered a serious breakdown upon its completion. It is by common critical consent one of his finest achievements. Bomb-throwing assassins, political repression and revolt, emigre revolutionaries infiltrated by a government spy: much of Under Western Eyes (1911) is more topical than we might wish. Set in tsarist Russia and in Geneva, its concern with perennial issues of human responsibility gives it a lasting moral force. The contradictory demands placed upon men and women by the social and political convulsions of the modern age have never been more revealingly depicted. Joseph Conrad personally felt no sympathy with either Russians or revolutionaries. None the less his portrayal of both in Under Western Eyes is dispassionate and disinterested. Through the Western eyes of his narrator we are given a sombre but not entirely pessimistic view of the human dilemmas which are born of oppression and violence.