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Dynamis and Energeia in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes

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Evolving in a world which is fundamentally cynical, hard, ruthless, and where double-agents kill for both camps without compunction, the main characters of Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes develop pent-up energies that become dramatically unleashed at key moments. Given that “all secret revolutionary action [is] based upon folly, self-deception, and lies,” not being what they seem to be, not looking what they actually are, such characters undermine the logic of nineteenth-century characterization in realist novels. In Under Western Eyes the phenomenon reaches a new dimension in that the “Flaubertian” construction of characters goes hand in hand with the systematic undermining of the elements which have been foregrounded to delineate them. The paradoxical logic of characters in Under Western Eyes is particularly dramatized in a series of powerful explosions.

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hal-03800431 , version 1 (06-10-2022)

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Yann Tholoniat. Dynamis and Energeia in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes. L'Epoque Conradienne, 2022, 43, pp.15-25. ⟨hal-03800431⟩
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