Under Western Eyes (Twentieth Century Classics)

Paperback, 352 pages

Published Sept. 1, 1990 by Penguin Classics.

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3 stars (1 review)

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reviewed Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad

Sad eyes

3 stars

This is a depressing read about the Russians, Russia and the proverbial Russian soul. About the omnipresent material and moral poverty and alcoholism. About despair and futility. Applicable to modern-day Russia, unfortunately.

The story is irrelevant. There are no likeable characters. Conrad means to show the European and Russian worldviews not as competing, but as intrinsically alien to each other.

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