The Secret Agent (1907) builds a triangle of conspiracy, which is destroyed, by the self-interset of its participants. Mr Verloc, employed by a foreign embassy to incriminate an anarchist group, instead destroys his family, his illusions, and his own life, in a terrorist act gone utterly wrong. Conrad's ironic and troubling novel exposes the futility of political extremism and the strength,andvanity of human illusion. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Joseph Conrad(1857-1924),Known primarily as a writer of sea stories in his own time,conrad has since been acclaimed as a leading influence in the Modernist movement,with his novels displaying a masterful narra-tive techniques.
First published in book form in 1907,The Secret Agent is a subtle study of espionage and anarchy in Edwardina England.One of Conrad's darkest and most thrilling novels,F.R.Leavis thought it a 'classic of the first order'. |
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