Under Western Eyes
by Joseph Conrad
Bomb-throwing assassins, political repression and riots, immigrant revolutionaries, have infiltrated a government spy: much of "Under Western Eyes" is more relevant than we would like. Set in Tsarist Russia and Geneva, and narrated through the Western eyes of the British narrator Conrad, we are given a cruel but not entirely pessimistic view of the human dilemmas that arise from oppression and violence. This, by common critical agreement, is one of Conrad's best novels.
