El Agente Secreto

Publisher Marketing: Inquieta recordar que un paisaje terrorifico muy semejante al que se vivio en Londres el 7 de julio de 2005 aparecio descrito hace casi un siglo por Joseph Conrad en El agente secreto. Esto podria significar dos cosas: una, que los artistas se adelantan, a veces fatalmente, a su tiempo, y otra, que la humanidad no avanza, sino da vueltas sobre si misma, fiel a sus miserias. Al final, lo que Conrad vio en la absurda actividad terrorista fue a una "humanidad siempre tan tragicamente dispuesta a la autodestruccion." Contributor Bio:  Conrad, Joseph Polish author Joseph Conrad is considered to be one of the greatest English-language novelists, a remarkable achievement considering English was not his first language. Conrad's literary works often featured a nautical setting, reflecting the influences of his early career in the Merchant Navy, and his depictions of the struggles of the human spirit in a cold, indifferent world are best exemplified in such seminal works as Heart of Darkness, Lord JimM, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, and Typhoon. Regarded as a forerunner of modernist literature, Conrad's writing style and characters have influenced such distinguished writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, and George Orwell, among many others. Many of Conrad's novels have been adapted for film, most notably Heart of Darkness, which served as the inspiration and foundation for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalpyse Now.