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Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment; Conrad was reputed to have detested Dostoevsky.
- Joseph Conrad
- Novel
- 1911
- 1911
Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny and the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society.
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9 de ene. de 2006 · Razumov stamped his foot—and under the soft carpet of snow felt the hard ground of Russia, inanimate, cold, inert, like a sullen and tragic mother hiding her face under a winding-sheet—his native soil!—his very own—without a fireside, without a heart!
Narrada desde la perspectiva occidental de un inglés afincado en la capital suiza, Bajo la mirada de Occidente está a la altura de las grandes novelas de Conrad como Lord Jim, El agente secreto o El corazón de las tinieblas.
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- Joseph Conrad
- English
- 1911
- Under Western Eyes
Under Western Eyes: A Novel. Joseph Conrad. Harper & Brothers, 1911 - Fiction - 375 pages. Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in...
With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by Peter the Great.
