With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the
Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. 'Then the vision of an
enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel
devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place
any story, depth enough for any passion, variety enough there for
any setting, darkness enough to bury five millions of lives.'
Conrad's 'monstrous town' is London, and his story of espionage and
counter-espionage, anarchists and embassies, is a detective story
that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc's tenacity in maintaining
her devotion to her peculiar and simple-minded brother, Stevie, as
they pursue their very ordinary lives above a rather dubious shop
in the back streets of Soho. However, far from offering any
sentimental picture, The Secret Agent is Conrad's funniest novel.
Its savagely witty picture of human absurdity and misunderstanding
is written in an ironic style that provokes laughter and unease at
the same time, and that continues to provide one of the most
disturbing visions of aspiration and futility in twentieth century
literature.
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