Joseph Conrad CONSPIRATORS Original screenplay for an unproduced film #140647

  

The Conspirators (Original screenplay for an unproduced film). Author: Joseph Conrad (author); Adam Gillon, Scott Gordon (screenwriters) Title: The Conspirators (Original screenplay for an unproduced film) Publication: New York: Double Helix Films, circa 1987.

Description: Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil. An unproduced film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1911 novel "Under Western Eyes, " which many consider to be Conrad's response to Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment, " whom Conrad detested. Conrad's father was a revolutionary imprisoned by the Russians which initially inspired both this book and Conrad's hatred of the authorities of the Russian empire. The story generally deals with the failed attempts of a revolutionary, told through a teacher of languages living in Geneva, as the narrator.

A young revolutionary Razumov feels isolated within the Czarist system and cynical about his station in life but falls into a trap of unfairness through simply associating with actual revolutionaries, which land him in trouble and inspire others to take a stand against the government. Razumov betrayed a fellow revolutionary by ratting him out to the police, and then working with the police as a double agent. When his conscience gets the better of him and he confesses his misdeeds to a revolutionary gathering in Switzerland, they destroy his eardrums. A deaf Razumov is crushed by a tram and dies soon after. Petersburg, Russia and Geneva, Switzerland.

Blue titled wrappers, with credits for screenwriters Adam Gillon and Scott Gordon, and author Joseph Conrad. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Gillon and Gordon, and author Conrad. 128 leaves, with last page of text numbered 127. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. Subject: 1980s Cinema, Film Scripts, Films with Literary Sources, Social Justice, Radical, and Proletarian Interest, Unproduced Films. Royal Books is located in the midtown area of Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1996, we have specialized in rare books and paper relating to twentieth century literature, genre fiction, the arts, and popular culture, with a particular emphasis on cinema. All books noted as First Editions are also First Printings unless indicated otherwise.

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