With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph
Conrad Society of Great Britain. 'Then the vision of an enormous town
presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's
light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for
any passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough to
bury five millions of lives.'Conrad's 'monstrous town' is London, and
his story of espionage and counter-espionage, anarchists and embassies,
is a detective story that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc's tenacity
in maintaining her devotion to her peculiar and simple-minded brother,
Stevie, as they pursue their very ordinary lives above a rather dubious
shop in the back streets of Soho.
However, far from offering any
sentimental picture, The Secret Agent is Conrad's funniest novel. Its
savagely witty picture of human absurdity and misunderstanding is
written in an ironic style that provokes laughter and unease at the same
time, and that continues to provide one of the most disturbing visions
of aspiration and futility in twentieth century literature.
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
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