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Chapter 6 - Details and The Secret Agent

from Part II - Published Texts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

Johan Adam Warodell
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University of Sussex
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At first sight The Secret Agent is a novel where content and form seamlessly overlap, and where unorthodox narrative proportions echo its ideological paradoxes in anarchist aesthetics. But the structure is at odds with the theme – somewhat like an abstract painting within a classic, ornate frame. Rather than invoking fragmentation, the nonchronological chapters in The Secret Agent allow for unity and consistency: a way to display control. The novel is knitted in an overlapping pattern of interweaving sequences and temporal criss-crossings, where scattered and eclectic details add structure to disorganized characters, chapters and circumstances. The Secret Agent is not a sustained discussion of one topic, but a manifesto of marginality or manifest marginality: a novel written in the margins.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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