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Adolf Verloc: a secret agent who owns a shop in Soho in London. His primary characteristic, as described by Conrad, is indolence. He has been employed by an unnamed embassy to spy on revolutionary groups, which then orders him to instigate a terrorist act against the Greenwich Observatory.
- Joseph Conrad
- 1907
The Secret Agent is a fictional take on a real-life event: the 1894 bombing in Greenwich Park, London. The true motives of the anarchist—who died in the explosion when his bomb went off prematurely—remain unknown to this day.
Jan 18, 2019 · In 1894 a bomb exploded in Greenwich Park, killing (accidentally) the person carrying it. That person was Martial Bourdin, a member of an Anarchist organisation known as Club Autonomie and the supposed target the bomb had actually been meant for was The Greenwich Observatory.
The story flashes forward to the aftermath of a terrorist bombing in Greenwich Park. Ossipon is having a beer with a mysterious figure called The Professor , an anarchist and bomb-maker who has a detonator and explosive device on his person at all times.
Sep 11, 2005 · "The Secret Agent," Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Royal Observatory at Greenwich -- in fact, a scheme by a secret police agent to stir up a government backlash...
Nov 9, 2021 · The anarchist speaker and writer, David Nicholl, wrote a pamphlet in 1897 claiming that Bourdin’s brother-in-law, H.B Samuels, was a government agent (spy) and had provided the materials to Bourdin to make a bomb.
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the Greenwich bombing was Joseph Conrad, even though he denied having done so in his letters and in his 1920 "Author's Note" to The Secret Agent. As Norman Sherry and David Mulry argue, however, Conrad almost certainly drew on popular and anarchist newspaper accounts of the bombing as sources for The Secret Agent (1907).2 These
