Victory: An Island TaleOxford University Press, 2004 - 333 páginas 'Victory, don't forget, has come out of my innermost self.' Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. Sub-titled 'An Island Tale', it tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead father's nihilistic philosophy, has retreated from the world of commerce and colonial exploration to live alone on the island ofSamburan. But Heyst's solitary existence ends when he rescues an English girl from her rapacious patron and takes her off to his retreat. She in turn recalls him to love and life, until the world breaks in on them once more with tragic consequences. In this love story Conrad created two of hispsychologically most complex and compelling characters in a narrative of great erotic power. This new edition uses the English first edition text and has a new chronology and bibliography. |
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... Lena his most perceptive analysis of the female psyche . In a wider sense the state- ment also reminds us of Conrad's artistic credo : his belief that the writer must combine the accurate depiction of the external , visible world , with ...
... Lena his most perceptive analysis of the female psyche . In a wider sense the state- ment also reminds us of Conrad's artistic credo : his belief that the writer must combine the accurate depiction of the external , visible world , with ...
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... Lena . The Axel Heyst who at the outset affirmed " There's nothing worth knowing but facts . Hard facts ! Facts alone ' ( p . 10 ) , will be brought to a very different awareness after eighteen months of isolation on Samburan , though ...
... Lena . The Axel Heyst who at the outset affirmed " There's nothing worth knowing but facts . Hard facts ! Facts alone ' ( p . 10 ) , will be brought to a very different awareness after eighteen months of isolation on Samburan , though ...
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... Lena , that I — that Swede - after luring my friend and partner to his death from mere greed of money , have murdered these unoffending shipwrecked strangers from sheer funk . That would be the story whispered - perhaps shouted ...
... Lena , that I — that Swede - after luring my friend and partner to his death from mere greed of money , have murdered these unoffending shipwrecked strangers from sheer funk . That would be the story whispered - perhaps shouted ...
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... Lena has instinctively known from the first : ' I can only be what you think I am ' ( p . 144 ) . Heyst is saved from a collapse into the abyss of the self by the innate grace of compassion ( one of the key Conradian virtues , along ...
... Lena has instinctively known from the first : ' I can only be what you think I am ' ( p . 144 ) . Heyst is saved from a collapse into the abyss of the self by the innate grace of compassion ( one of the key Conradian virtues , along ...
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... Lena's self - sacrifice , though unlike Anne , Lena is sexually unawakened before she meets Heyst . The parallels in characterization and events , though superficial , indicate the germs of what would be more fully developed in Victory ...
... Lena's self - sacrifice , though unlike Anne , Lena is sexually unawakened before she meets Heyst . The parallels in characterization and events , though superficial , indicate the germs of what would be more fully developed in Victory ...
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Alfuro Almayer's Folly arms asked Axel Heyst believe boat bungalow called chair chimæras Chinaman D. H. Lawrence Davidson death door doorway eyes face faint feeling fellow felt frightened gentleman girl glance gone governor hand head heard Heart of Darkness hotel-keeper human island jetty Jones Joseph Conrad Lena light lips looked Lord Jim Malay Malay Archipelago Martin matter mean mind Morrison moved murmured mysterious never night novel Number OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS Pedro perhaps Ricardo Robert Hampson round Samburan Schomberg seemed shadow shoulders side sight silence smile sort soul sound Sourabaya speak stare strange suddenly T. S. Eliot table d'hôte Tadeusz Bobrowski talk tell Tesmans There's thing thought told tone Tropical Belt Coal turned understand University Press verandah Victory voice Wang watched wharf What's whispered woman wonder words Zangiacomo