Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), both during his lifetime and after his death, was often identified by readers as primarily the author of sea adventures and exotic entourage. From the outset, this outraged a writer who abandoned the narrow niche of marine science and asserted the rights of his prose to something more. This is best seen in taking away the exotic scenery and moving the action to the heart of the empire, to London, and already there to talk about the turbulent trends that shaped the political agenda of his time, such as anarchism. The subject of this "ordinary story" is the drama in the family of a secret agent in the service of anarchism. In addition to this work, the body of the so-called. The author's political novels are also based on Nostromo and The Eyes of the West. Joseph Conrad constantly worked on the formal component of the text (and is known in Britain in particular as an outstanding stylist), which, together with the depth of the novels, makes him one of the leading representatives of English modernism. Translated into Ukrainian for the first time.
