基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：400 页
出版日期：2007年12月
ISBN：0141441941
条形码：9780141441948
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：在西方的注视下

内容简介 'Whenever two Russians come together, the shadow of autocracy is with them...haunting the secret of their silences.'

First published in 1911, Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student of philosophy who is uninvolved in politics or protest. Against his will he finds himself caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing directed against the Tsarist authorities. He is pulled in different directions - by his conscience and his ambitions, by powerful opposed political forces, but most of all by personal emotions he is unable to suppress. Set in St Petersburg and
Geneva, the novel is in part a critical response to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment but it is also a startlingly modern book. Viewed through the 'Western eyes' of Conrad's English narrator, Razumov's story forces the reader to confront the same moral issues: the defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny, the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society, and the demands thrown up by the interplay of power and knowledge.

This new edition is based on the first English edition text, and has a new chronology and bibliography. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
作者简介 Jeffrey Meyers, a distinguished biographer, is the author of Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence and Joseph Conrad. He lives in Berkeley, California. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.