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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.
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.
Resumen y sinopsis de Bajo la mirada de occidente de Joseph Conrad. El estudiante ruso Razumov se ve envuelto en un atentado cometido por un compañero revolucionario al que acaba delatando a la policía.
A critique of Joseph Conrad's 1911 novel Under Western Eyes, which explores the themes of language, confession, and the Russian spy in Switzerland. The article analyzes the narrator's role, the confessions of Razumov and other characters, and the title's meaning. It compares the novel with Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Conrad's other works.
9 de ene. de 2006 · The Project Gutenberg EBook of Under Western Eyes, by Joseph Conrad This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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 the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official. Asked to spy on the family of the assassin -- his ...
10 de oct. de 2013 · Under Western Eyes. Joseph Conrad. Modern Library, 2001 - Fiction - 298 pages. Hailed as one of Joseph Conrad's finest literary achievements, this is the story of a young man unwittingly caught in the political turmoil of pre-Revolutionary czarist Russia.
