El agente secreto "The Secret Agent"
Joseph Conrad
Dec 2024 · RB Media · Narrated by Ana Begoña Eguileor
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En 1906 un acontecimiento real, el intento de volar el Observatorio de Greenwich por parte de un anarquista
llamado Martial Bourdin, inspiró a Joseph Conrad el tema de un relato magistral. Sobre el telón de fondo del
Londres de comienzos de siglo, una ciudad monstruosa e indiferente, se desarrolla la historia de un fallido
atentado que revela el turbio entramado formado por el terrorismo internacional, la acción de la policía y la
diplomacia deshonesta. Una profunda ironía que raya en comicidad impregna este relato intenso y armónico,
imprevisiblemente dominado por una figura femenina, en un comienzo marginal, a quien una pasión casi
maternal conduce a la locura y la desesperación.
llamado Martial Bourdin, inspiró a Joseph Conrad el tema de un relato magistral. Sobre el telón de fondo del
Londres de comienzos de siglo, una ciudad monstruosa e indiferente, se desarrolla la historia de un fallido
atentado que revela el turbio entramado formado por el terrorismo internacional, la acción de la policía y la
diplomacia deshonesta. Una profunda ironía que raya en comicidad impregna este relato intenso y armónico,
imprevisiblemente dominado por una figura femenina, en un comienzo marginal, a quien una pasión casi
maternal conduce a la locura y la desesperación.
About the author
Joseph Conrad is recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novelists. He was born Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in the Polish Ukraine. His father, a writer and translator, was from Polish nobility, but political activity against Russian oppression led to his exile. Conrad was orphaned at a young age and subsequently raised by his uncle. At 17 he went to sea, an experience that shaped the bleak view of human nature which he expressed in his fiction. In such works as Lord Jim (1900), Youth (1902), and Nostromo (1904), Conrad depicts individuals thrust by circumstances beyond their control into moral and emotional dilemmas. His novel Heart of Darkness (1902), perhaps his best known and most influential work, narrates a literal journey to the center of the African jungle. This novel inspired the acclaimed motion picture Apocalypse Now. After the publication of his first novel, Almayer's Folly (1895), Conrad gave up the sea. He produced thirteen novels, two volumes of memoirs, and twenty-eight short stories. He died on August 3, 1924, in England.
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