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The Secret Agent: Creating Tension through Structure

The Secret Agent: Creating Tension through Structure

Update: 2023-03-17
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The Secret Agent is not an action-packed novel. Yes, it includes a grisly bombing, but that central event occurs too early according to Freitag's Triangle--and it's reported, not even presented directly. Yet TSA is an exceptionally suspenseful novel because of the way Conrad intertwines structure and point-of-view through a series of hand-offs.

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The Secret Agent: Creating Tension through Structure

The Secret Agent: Creating Tension through Structure

Ann Gelder