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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... called two incompatible orders of reality . That often tragic clash in turn raises profoundly search- ing questions about the nature of human consciousness and percep- tion , and about the forces which shape the individual and determine ...
... called two incompatible orders of reality . That often tragic clash in turn raises profoundly search- ing questions about the nature of human consciousness and percep- tion , and about the forces which shape the individual and determine ...
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... called in Part I - ' Enchanted ' , ' Hard Facts ' , ' Spider ' , ' Naïve ' , ' Enemy ' , ' g'n'lman ' , ' utopist ' — are reminders of the impossibility of ever fully defining the inner truth of the individual . These limitations of ...
... called in Part I - ' Enchanted ' , ' Hard Facts ' , ' Spider ' , ' Naïve ' , ' Enemy ' , ' g'n'lman ' , ' utopist ' — are reminders of the impossibility of ever fully defining the inner truth of the individual . These limitations of ...
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... called ' the sublime spectacle ' , 1 of perceiving and seeking to understand that spectacle , is in itself a moral activity . In that activity the artist has a particularly vital role , for it is he who must strive to do ' the highest ...
... called ' the sublime spectacle ' , 1 of perceiving and seeking to understand that spectacle , is in itself a moral activity . In that activity the artist has a particularly vital role , for it is he who must strive to do ' the highest ...
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... called music ' the universal imageless language of the heart ' , 18 a direct expression of the ' will ' and therefore representing the closest approach to that primary reality which we perceive and experience . It speaks directly to the ...
... called music ' the universal imageless language of the heart ' , 18 a direct expression of the ' will ' and therefore representing the closest approach to that primary reality which we perceive and experience . It speaks directly to the ...
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... called ' the fine conscience ' , which he defined as ' a thing of infinite complication and suggestion ' which is ' naturally virtuous [ . . . ] most visible in its ultimate triumph [ . . . ] through an energetic act of renunciation'.23 ...
... called ' the fine conscience ' , which he defined as ' a thing of infinite complication and suggestion ' which is ' naturally virtuous [ . . . ] most visible in its ultimate triumph [ . . . ] through an energetic act of renunciation'.23 ...
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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