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.
'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.
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...
評分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...
評分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...
評分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...
評分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...
多年不讀康拉德,晚期從航海小說轉嚮政治小說後讀來仍然夾帶熟悉的眩暈感。最後三章精彩極瞭,喜劇式的政治波瀾因為一場意外implode成為傢庭悲劇,康拉德筆下Stevie和馬車夫的對話寫得多溫柔,Mrs. Verloc最後的爆發就多快意。第11章漫長的殺人過程可謂心理描寫的頂峰,之後Mrs. Verloc和Ossipon間的博弈也讓人緊張又興奮。讀小說開心!
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
评分關於‘時間’題材的書,its digital format is aviable in wechat public page: iAudioBook
评分補記。
评分康拉德真神人,寫人的內心掙紮寫的太好瞭。我以前怎麼能不怎麼好好讀文學??
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