by Joseph Conrad · El Aleph Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476697399
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«El agente secreto» is the novel by Joseph Conrad, published by El Aleph Editores in paperback (322 pages, in Spanish).
Verloc, an indolent anarchist, hides his political activity behind a Soho shop, where he lives with Winnie and her brother Stevie. Pressured by the diplomat Vladimir, he places a bomb at the Greenwich Observatory. After the explosion, he discovers he has destroyed more than bourgeois complacency. Irony and black satire on a corrupt society.
The edition belongs to the Modernos y Clásicos collection and includes a translation by Jorge Edwards and a prologue by Thomas Mann. Conrad wrote El agente secreto in 1907.
For readers of classic novels and literary fiction interested in political terrorism and early 20th-century London.
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