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Джозеф Конрад (Юзеф Теодор Конрад Коженёвский; 1857–1924) - английский писатель польского происхождения, чьи авантюрно-психологические романы подготовили явление европейского модернизма. В романе "Тайный агент: Простая история" (1907) Конрад затрагивает русскую тему, во многом следуя в ее трактовке Ф. М. Достоевскому. Завербованный посольством одной восточной державы (подразумевается Российская империя) человек лондонского "подполья" соглашается организовать взрыв Королевской обсерватории в Гринвиче - изобразить покушение на сами основы западной цивилизации и науки ради международной борьбы с террором. Автор подробно описывает, как полиция…

«Секретный агент» Конрада — не детектив в привычном смысле слова. В романе на первый план выведены характеры героев, их душевное состояние и переживания. Увлекает напряженная интрига, и выразительные действующие лица, глубокий психологический анализ сторонников террора. Мы видим трагедию одиночки, роковую игру человека с Судьбой, проклятие золота, и дихотомию Восток-Запад.

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The main character of The Secret Agent, Mr Verloc keeps a shop in Londons Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and Londons fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.

A novel by Joseph Conrad, it was first published in 1907 and is set in London in 1886. It largely deals with the life of a Mr Verloc, who is a spy. The novel deals with terrorism, espionage and anarchism.Verloc owns and runs a shop which sells pornographic material and contraceptives, this is a cover for his espionage, the target for the group is to blow up the Greenwich Observatory.This novel was ranked in the top 50 of the 20th Century Modern Library. Read less

In the only novel Conrad set in London, "The Secret Agent" communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions.

Провокатор и профессиональный анархист Карл Верлок, скрываясь под маской общительного владельца собственной лавки канцелярских принадлежностей, проводит серию взрывов в Лондоне. Почувствовав, что находится под наблюдением сыщика Теда Спенсера, он просит мальчика Стиви, младшего брата его жены, доставить на другой конец города сверток. Это бомба с часовым механизмом... По роману "Тайный агент" Альфредом Хичкоком был снят фильм "Саботаж".

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be 'A Simple Tale' proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous…

Провокатор и профессиональный анархист Карл Верлок, скрываясь под маской общительного владельца собственной лавки канцелярских принадлежностей, проводит серию взрывов в Лондоне Почувствовав, что находится под наблюдением сыщика Теда Спенсера, он просит мальчика Стиви, младшего брата его жены, доставить на другой конец города сверток. Это бомба с часовым механизмом... По роману "Тайный агент" Альфредом Хичкоком был снят фильм «Саботаж».

At the turn of the 20th century, London has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city’s inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such terrorist is Verloc, a secret agent who is given the mission to strike at the heart of London’s pride by blowing up the Greenwich Observatory. But his decision to drag his innocent family into the plot leads to tragic consequences.

Inspired by an actual attempt in 1894 to blow up London's Greenwich Observatory, here is a chillingly prophetic examination of contemporary terrorism-and the literary precursor to today's espionage thriller.

Джозеф Конрад – поляк по происхождению, получил признание как классик английской литературы. В издании представлен неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала.

While Mr Verloc, his wife Winnie and her simple brother Stevie might appear to lead the ordinary lives of London shopkeepers, the reality is far stranger. Verloc's existence is a clandestine one, working as an embassy informant while on the inside of an anarchist group, and Winnie's is one bound by drudgery and devotion to her needy brother. Their marriage is a shell of loneliness, and when Verloc's reluctant involvement in a terrorist plot ends in disaster, the repercussions spread far beyond his life as a secret agent to destroy the fabric of their fragile domestic setup. As a detective story and absorbing psychological drama "The Secret…

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which…

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`Then 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 tiny 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.…

Then the vision of an enormous town prsented 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.

`This simple tale of the nineteenth century` gives us a vision of man trapped in an urban secular hell. `The Secret Agent` is the only novel that Conrad set in London and its precise and fastidious prose communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. As the basis of the central action Conrad takes an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, who is secretly working for the police and a `foreign power` (Russia) while ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho, is required by his masters to discredit the anarchists in some spectacular way. He persuades his wife`s idiot brother, Stevie, to plant a bomb -…

Mr. Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be 'a simple tale' proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which…

Behind the facade of a Soho shop selling dubious merchandise lives Verloc with his wife Winnie, her mother and her retarded brother, Stevie. Verloc is an overweight, indolent anarchist who conceals his political activities, such as they are, under a veneer of domesticity and family life. According to the First Secretary, Mr Vladimir, Verloc has done little to earn his money in recent years and it is time for a 'dynamic outrage' to provoke he middle classes. So Verloc, accepting his duty, plants a bomb at the Greenwich Observatory. But when the blast has done its work, Verloc finds he has destroyed a great deal more than the complacency of…

The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed original of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused motives that lie at the heart of political terrorism. In its use of powerful psychological insight to intensify narrative suspense, it sets the terms by which subsequent works in its genre were created. Conrad was the first novelist to discover the strange, in-between territory of the political exile, and his genius was such that we still have no truer map of that region’s moral terrain than his story of a terrorist plot and its tragic consequences for both guilty and innocent alike.

Издательство "Петроград". Переплет: твердый. Формат: уменьшенный. Провокатор и профессиональный анархист Карл Верлок, скрываясь под маской общительного владельца собственной лавки канцелярских принадлежностей, проводит серию взрывов в Лондоне. Почувствовав, что находится под наблюдением сыщика Теда Спенсера, он просит мальчика Стиви, младшего брата его жены, доставить на другой конец города сверток. Это бомба с часовым механизмом...

Joseph Conrad oparł „Tajnego agenta” na autentycznych wydarzeniach z 15 lutego 1894 r., gdy w parku otaczającym królewskie obserwatorium w Greenwich doszło do eksplozji bomby. Miała ona wysadzić mury budynku obserwatorium, lecz wskutek przedwczesnej detonacji wybuchła w rękach niedoszłego zamachowca. Wypadek uruchamia ciąg zdarzeń, wykazujących powiązania pomiędzy tytułowym agentem a politykami, funkcjonariuszami policji oraz anarchistami, ukazując świat brudny, oparty na sile, kłamstwie i wyrachowaniu. Świat, w którym gra pozorów prawdziwych psychologicznie, a zarazem groteskowych postaci doprowadza do autentycznej tragedii. „Tajny agent”…

Joseph Conrads Geheimagent spielt im Großstadt-Dschungel Londons und beruht auf einer wahren Begebenheit: dem Bombenanschlag auf die Sternwarte von Greenwich im Jahr 1894. Der anarchistische Attentäter Adolf Verloc führt ein abenteuerliches Doppelleben, das den Leser tief hineinführt in Agentenzirkel, Revoluzzertum und die Untiefen menschlicher Verworfenheit. Der Roman gipfelt in einer der berühmtesten Mordszenen der englischen Literatur. Eine spannende, ja aufregende Geschichte, befand schon der von ihr faszinierte Thomas Mann.

Секретный агент Верлок, существо бездарное во всех отношениях, наконец-то получает настоящее задание - взорвать Гринвичскую обсерваторию.

В «Тайном агенте» выведен завербованный посольством одной восточной державы (подразумевается Российская империя) человек лондонского «подполья», вынужденный под давлением своего «куратора» из посольства организовать взрыв Королевской обсерватории в Гринвиче — ради международной борьбы с террором изобразить покушение на сами основы западной цивилизации и науки. Конрад подробно описывает, как полиция идет по следу преступника и какие коллизии возникают среди самих полицейских чинов в связи с раскрытием этой тайны; сочными красками рисует портреты анархистов, семейную трагедию заглавного персонажа, который оказывается характерным конрадовским…

Its genesis a real attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894, Conrad's novel offers an ironic meditation not only on anarchy and revolution, with all the deception and intrigue they imply, but also on loyalty - to friends and family, to country and ideals. `They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic - to terror, too, perhaps.'Considered one of Conrad's most political works, The Secret Agent is set against the dismal backdrop of a drab and alienating London, and tells the story of the bombing of Greenwich…

Adolf Verloc is a double agent, working for both the British police and a foreign country. He pretends to live a normal life, with his wife, Winnie, and has a shop in London, which, at night, becomes a meeting place for anarchists. One day Verloc is told to plant a bomb but the plan goes terribly wrong.

In The Secret Agent, a Soho shopkeeper is a member of a terrorist cell, supported by a foreign power, plotting to undermine the English state by means of a bomb plot. Published in 1907, it is considered to be among Conrad's finest novels, written at a time when he was moving away from the seafaring themes which he was known for. Prescient in its depictions of terrorism and political instability, it has become mandatory reading for anyone wishing to understand terrorism and counterterrorism in the 20th century.

Joseph Conrads 1907 novel, The Secret Agent, is a difficult little book. Its story is difficult and its characters are largely unpleasant. By difficult and unpleasant, I dont mean to say the novel isnt any good. Far from it. These terms I mean to denote the impenetrability of motive, of sense. The story of a group of anarchists, police, and a family caught in the middle in late Victorian England, The Secret Agent is far from Conrads subtitle, A Simple Tale. The novel, for me, is about hatred, mistrust, and breakdowns in communication. The Secret Agent begins early one morning in 1886. Mr. Verloc, a secret agent for a foreign embassy, who…