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- Title: Under Western Eyes
- Author : Joseph Conrad
- Release Date : January 06, 2015
- Genre: Romance,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4783 KB
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Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment; Conrad was reputed to have detested Dostoevsky. It is also, some say, Conrad's response to his own early life; his father was a famous revolutionary imprisoned by the Russians, but, instead of following in his father's footsteps, at the age of sixteen Conrad left his native land forever.
The narrator, an English teacher of languages living in Geneva, is narrating the personal record of Kyrilo Sidorovitch Razumov. Razumov is a student in the University of St. Petersburg in the early 1910s. He never knew his parents and thus has no family tradition. He is trusted by his fellow students, many of who hold revolutionary views, but he takes no clear positions in the great questions of his time because he considers all of Russia his family.