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The war on terror: the prescience of Joseph Conrad.(Short Take)(The Secret Agent)
From: Commonweal
Date: 20051021
Author:Meyers, Jeffrey
Tom Reiss's article on Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes (1911) in the New York Times Book Review ("The True Classic of Terrorism," September 11) criticizes the stock figures and cartoon characters of Conrad's earlier novel, The Secret Agent (1907), and claims that it is "not especially prescient about terrorism." But Reiss also concedes that the "tightly constructed" earlier novel "seems stunningly up-to-date" and "remains the most brilliant novelistic study of terrorism as viewed from the blood-splattered outside." In fact, the more ambitious Under Western Eyes builds on and ...
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