Terrorism in Conrad’s The Secret Agent*

Year 2014, Volume: 11 Issue: 2, 325 - 337, 01.12.2014

Hafudh Farhood Abda Alsalim

Abstract

The Secret Agent, published in 1907, is a detective novel by Joseph Conrad, the

well-known Polish-English novelist, and it is classified as one of Conrad’s political

novels, together with Nostromo (1905) and Under Western Eyes (1911). The Secret

Agent, particularly because of its theme of terrorism and the violence it depicts, has

become famous again in the US after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and after the recent suicide

bombings that have occurred in Europe. The novel describes the period of the fear of the

dynamite-throwing anarchist that disturbed the European society from the 1880s through

the early part of the twentieth century.

Keywords

Conrad, Terrorism, The Secret Agent

Terrorism in Conrad’s The Secret Agent*

Abstract

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