Under Western Eyes

Some Joseph Conrad's works are seen by critics as being influenced by works of a famous Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Despite that he himself claimed that he allegedly does not like this writer, for example, when talking about Dostoyevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov", 'It's terrifically bad and impressive and exasperating'. Yet, in Conrad's novel 'The Eyes of the West', which talks about ...