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Article: Christopher Hampton's Adaptation of Joseph Conrad's the Secret Agent's.
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- Conradiana
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent is one of the key novels of early twentieth-century English literature. It is a devastating satire on late Victorian society on all levels: law and order; parliamentary and anarchistic politics; the class system; the domestic world; newspaper media. Most impressively, the novel constructs a powerful sense of London as a forum of experience. When Conrad first came to London he recalls it as a Dickensian place characterized by "freakishly sombre phantasy" (1) described so vividly in his essay "Poland Revisited" (1915). Conrad evokes the London streets as a peculiar experience in their own right and as an alienating stage on which he ...
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