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''Whenever two Russians come together, the shadow of autocracy is with them...haunting the secret of their silences.''First published in 1911, Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student of philosophy who is uninvolved in politics or protest. Against his will he finds himself caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing directed against the Tsarist authorities. He is pulled in different directions - by his conscience and his ambitions, by powerful opposed political forces, but most of all by personal emotions he is unable to suppress. Set in St Petersburg and Geneva, the novel is in part a critical response to Dostoevsky''s Crime and Punishment but it is also a startlingly modern book. Viewed through the ''Western eyes'' of Conrad''s English narrator, Razumov''s story forces the reader to confront the same moral issues: the defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny, the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society, and the demands t

Under Western Eyes

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 11 September 2008
      ISBN-13 9780199552375
      978-0199552375
      ISBN-10 0199552371
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      Classics Contemporary Fiction Books by Joseph Conrad

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      Book Synopsis
      ''Whenever two Russians come together, the shadow of autocracy is with them...haunting the secret of their silences.''First published in 1911, Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student of philosophy who is uninvolved in politics or protest. Against his will he finds himself caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing directed against the Tsarist authorities. He is pulled in different directions - by his conscience and his ambitions, by powerful opposed political forces, but most of all by personal emotions he is unable to suppress. Set in St Petersburg and Geneva, the novel is in part a critical response to Dostoevsky''s Crime and Punishment but it is also a startlingly modern book. Viewed through the ''Western eyes'' of Conrad''s English narrator, Razumov''s story forces the reader to confront the same moral issues: the defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny, the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society, and the demands t

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