A St. Petersburg student, Razumov, betrays a fellow student who has just assassinated a government minister, then finds himself recruited as a spy among Genevan revolutionary exiles — including the dead man's sister, who has no idea who really doomed her brother.
Books mentioned in Under Western Eyes (2)
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “These glances were needless; the people crossing over in the distance seemed unwilling even to look at the islet where the exiled effigy of the author of the _Social Contract_ sat enthroned above the bowed head of Razumov in the sombre immobility of bronze.”
Corinne by Madame de Stael: “And Madame de S-- was very far from resembling the gifted author of _Corinne_.”
Books that mention Under Western Eyes (1)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk: Epigraph credited: "—Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes"