Under Western Eyes 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. It has also been interpreted as Conrad’s response to his own early life; his father was a Polish independence activist and would-be revolutionary imprisoned by the Russians, but, instead of following in his father’s footsteps, at the age of sixteen Conrad left his native land, only to return briefly decades later.Indeed, while writing Under Western Eyes, Conrad suffered a weeks-long breakdown during which he conversed with the novel’s characters in Polish
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9789355843739 ● 文件大小 0.6 MB ● 出版者 True Sign Publishing House ● 发布时间 2023 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 9024623 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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