Conrad, Joseph
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About Under Western Eyes
“I am quite willing to be the blind instrument of higher ends. To give one’s life for the
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cause is nothing. But to have one’s illusions destroyed—that is really almost more than one can bear.”
Under Western Eyes is a novel by celebrated British-Polish author Joseph Conrad, published in 1911. Considered one of the writer’s most important works, its theme is the historical failure of revolutionary action, and man’s cavalier cruelty to his fellow man.
Razumov, a Russian student at the University of St Petersburg at the turn of the 20th century, fearing he will be implicated in the assassination of a Minister of State when he is asked to aid the escape of one of the perpetrators, betrays him to the authorities. A powerful, absorbing literary classic, and an unmissable read.
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