TMoP: Chap 11...on that "cracked bell"

[Richard Ryan]

Hmmmm...hadn't thought about the echoes of Conrad in TMoP - Dostoevsky, (obviously), Turgenev and Kafka come so much more readily to mind - but they're obviously there.  The novel's tone - a bleak, somewhat acerbic social realism combined with an intense psychological introspectiveness - is eminently "Conradian"....


--- On Sat, 11/1/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:


> The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Google Books Resultby
> Joseph Conrad - NOT 1993 - Fiction - 256 pages
> Twice at die clatter of the cracked bell he arose without a
> word, disappeared into the shop, ... for reasons that had
> nothing to do with abstract morality. ...
> books.google.com/books?isbn=1853260657...