Comments on: Under Western Eyes – a novel http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/under-western-eyes-a-novel/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Sat, 19 May 2012 08:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Neil http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/under-western-eyes-a-novel/comment-page-1/#comment-1992 Neil Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:53:36 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=163#comment-1992 <i>The Secret Agent</i> is uncanny nowadays as well, though the suicide bombing therein is not quite what we have become "accustomed" to these days. The Secret Agent is uncanny nowadays as well, though the suicide bombing therein is not quite what we have become “accustomed” to these days.

]]> By: bhupinder singh http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/under-western-eyes-a-novel/comment-page-1/#comment-1973 bhupinder singh Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:24:08 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=163#comment-1973 Thanks for the correction. Thanks for the correction.

]]> By: john baker http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/under-western-eyes-a-novel/comment-page-1/#comment-1961 john baker Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:39:04 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=163#comment-1961 It was published in 1911 in the UK, and translated into Russian later. It flopped in Britain but became a best-seller in Russia. It was published in 1911 in the UK, and translated into Russian later. It flopped in Britain but became a best-seller in Russia.

]]> By: bhupinder singh http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/under-western-eyes-a-novel/comment-page-1/#comment-1960 bhupinder singh Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:43:12 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=163#comment-1960 Isn't it a nearly prophetic novel, being published in Jan or Feb of 1917, a few months before the October Revolution? I have felt that this novel, along with <i> The Devils</i> by Dostoevesky, Arthur Koestler's <i> Darkness at Noon </i> and Mario Vargas Llosa's <i> The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta</i> forms a quartet of the political novel dealing with the moral questions confronted by anarchist/ socialist revolutionaries in the last one century and more. Isn’t it a nearly prophetic novel, being published in Jan or Feb of 1917, a few months before the October Revolution?

I have felt that this novel, along with The Devils by Dostoevesky, Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon and Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta forms a quartet of the political novel dealing with the moral questions confronted by anarchist/ socialist revolutionaries in the last one century and more.

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