'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.
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.
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...
補記。
评分也就是康拉德了,能把公务员生活写出史诗的感觉来。Verloc某种程度上其实是另一个Lord Jim,一个被现代生活卷入但是成不了现代人的旧时代生物。
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。
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。
评分我惊叹的是意义,和前半部分的语言。
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