Under Western eyes.

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Joseph Conrad: Under Western eyes. (1951, New Directions)

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382 pages

English language

Published Jan. 8, 1951 by New Directions.

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OCLC Number:
943700

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Subjects
  • College students -- Fiction
  • Terrorism -- Fiction
  • Bombings -- Fiction
  • Russia -- History -- 1904-1914 -- Fiction
  • Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Fiction
  • Geneva (Switzerland) -- Fiction

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reviewed Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad

Sad eyes

This is a depressing read about the Russians, Russia and the proverbial Russian soul. About the omnipresent material and moral poverty and alcoholism. About despair and futility. Applicable to modern-day Russia, unfortunately.

The story is irrelevant. There are no likeable characters. Conrad means to show the European and Russian worldviews not as competing, but as intrinsically alien to each other.