Under Western Eyes traces a sequence or error, guilt, and
expiation. Its composition placed such demands upon Conrad that he
suffered a serious breakdown upon its completion. It is by common
critical consent one of his finest achievements. Bomb-throwing
assassins, political repression and revolt, emigre revolutionaries
infiltrated by a government spy: much of Under Western Eyes (1911)
is more topical than we might wish. Set in tsarist Russia and in
Geneva, its concern with perennial issues of human responsibility
gives it a lasting moral force. The contradictory demands placed
upon men and women by the social and political convulsions of the
modern age have never been more revealingly depicted. Joseph Conrad
personally felt no sympathy with either Russians or
revolutionaries. None the less his portrayal of both in Under
Western Eyes is dispassionate and disinterested. Through the
Western eyes of his narrator we are given a sombre but not entirely
pessimistic view of the human dilemmas which are born of oppression
and violence.
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