The Secret Agent | Techniques
Unlike some of Conrad's other novels and stories, such as Lord Jim (1900; see separate entry), there is no dominating first-person narrator in The Secret Agent comparable to Charles Marlow. Moreover, the reader is not given a series of different narrative perspectives as in Lord Jim, or, as in Nostromo (1904; see separate entry). Conrad employs an apparently straightforward narrative technique in the tradition of conventional realism, a narrative method that appears deceptively simple.
Yet Conrad's narrative voice is controlled by a rigorous and...
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