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The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad · 初版 1907 年
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale是Joseph Conrad的一部小说，于1907年首次出版。故事设定在1886年的伦敦，围绕Adolf Verloc先生及其为一个未具名国家（推测为俄罗斯）担任间谍的工作展开。The Secret Agent是Conrad后期的政治小说之一，标志着他脱离了早期的航海题材。该小说题献给H. G. Wells，广泛涉及无政府主义、间谍活动与恐怖主义。它还通过Verloc与其患有智力障碍的内弟Stevie之间的关系，探讨了对弱势群体的剥削。Conrad阴郁的……
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……该由你来证明这点。我不需要去证伪。你得把卡辛斯基先生抛出的这个伟大观点展现出来。因为反正我是没看出来。顺便说一句，如果你说的书是指康拉德的《特工》（The Secret Agent），不，我之前不知道这本书。康拉德是个伟大的作家，但这本不是他最好的作品，我认为他最好的是《黑暗的心》（Heart of Darkness）。不过撇开卡辛斯基不谈，它依然值得一读。
…be your task, to show that. I don't need to prove the negative. You need to show this great idea that Mr. Kaczynski proffered. Cuz like I'm not seeing it. BTW, if by the book you meant Conrad's The Secret Agent, no I didn't know the book. Conrad is a great writer but this isn't his best which to me would be Heart of Darkness. It's still worth a read, irrespective of Kaczynski.
……《J·阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌》、《三博士归来》、《空心人》；欧内斯特·海明威：《一个干净明亮的地方》；赫尔曼·梅尔维尔：《抄写员巴特比》；约瑟夫·康拉德：《黑暗的心》和《特工》；居斯塔夫·福楼拜：《包法利夫人》；乔治·奥威尔：所有散文，尤其是《猎象记》和《绞刑》；司汤达：《红与黑》；詹姆斯·乔伊斯：《青年艺术家的肖像》……
…Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Return of the Magi", "Hollow men" Ernest Hemmingway: A Clean Well-Lighted Place Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary George Orwell: Any and all of the essays, but especially "Shooting an elephant" and "A hanging" Stendahl: Red and Black James Joyce: A Portrait of The Artist as a Young…
我觉得世道其实没太大变化。看看约瑟夫·康拉德 1907 年出版的《特工》（The Secret Agent）挺有意思的，那是根据真实事件（1894 年一起针对格林尼治天文台的无政府主义袭击）改编的。现代“恐怖主义”的所有要素在当年就全齐了：一个被当枪使的半吊子人肉炸弹，……
I don't think anything much has changed. It's interesting to look at Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent" -- published in 1907 -- which is based on a true story (of an anarchist attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894). All the elements of modern "terrorism" are there back then: a half-wit dupe bomber,…
……堪称大师级之作。说实话，大家提到康拉德时第一本想到的居然不是《诺斯托罗莫》（Nostromo），我至今还挺震惊的，毕竟无论在美感还是主题深度上，它都远超《黑暗的心》或《特工》。这感觉就像人人都觉得《泰比》（Typee）是梅尔维尔最好的作品一样。
…masterful. I'm honestly still shocked that Nostromo isn't the first book that people associate with Conrad, given that it's so much more beautiful and thematically-dense than Heart of Darkness or The Secret Agent. It's like if everyone thought Typee was Melville's best work.
这让我想起约瑟夫·康拉德在《特工》里描写伦敦地形奥秘的一段话：“弗洛克先生向左拐，沿着一条狭窄的街道走在黄色围墙边，出于某种不可捉摸的原因，那里居然挂着乞舍姆广场一号（No. I Chesham Square）的门牌……
Reminds me of this bit in Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Agent” about London’s topographical mysteries: ”With a turn to the left Mr Verloc pursued his way along a narrow street by the side of a yellow wall which, for some inscrutable reason, had No. I Chesham Square…