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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... death in 1924. Since then his reputation has steadily grown , and he is now seen as a writer who revolutionized the English novel and was arguably the most important literary innovator of the twentieth century . MARA KALNINS is Fellow ...
... death in 1924. Since then his reputation has steadily grown , and he is now seen as a writer who revolutionized the English novel and was arguably the most important literary innovator of the twentieth century . MARA KALNINS is Fellow ...
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... death from mere greed of money , have murdered these unoffending shipwrecked strangers from sheer funk . That would be the story whispered - perhaps shouted - certainly spread out , and believed— and believed , my dear Lena ! ' ( p ...
... death from mere greed of money , have murdered these unoffending shipwrecked strangers from sheer funk . That would be the story whispered - perhaps shouted - certainly spread out , and believed— and believed , my dear Lena ! ' ( p ...
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... death , and immediately thereafter his meeting Lena , ' a light veil seemed to hang before his mental vision ' ( p . 66 ) and Heyst's sceptical mind ( which has no ' illusions ' about Lena , though no real knowledge of her either ) ...
... death , and immediately thereafter his meeting Lena , ' a light veil seemed to hang before his mental vision ' ( p . 66 ) and Heyst's sceptical mind ( which has no ' illusions ' about Lena , though no real knowledge of her either ) ...
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... death , corruption , despair and all the illusions — and nothing matters . I'll admit however that to look at the remorseless process is sometimes amusing . ' See also Daphna Erdi- nast - Vulcan , Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper ...
... death , corruption , despair and all the illusions — and nothing matters . I'll admit however that to look at the remorseless process is sometimes amusing . ' See also Daphna Erdi- nast - Vulcan , Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper ...
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... deaths- head ' , the self - confessed murderer Ricardo reduced to a predatory ' cat ' , the brutish Pedro diminished to a subhuman creature . These descriptions of the three , however , actually occur in the first half of the book , the ...
... deaths- head ' , the self - confessed murderer Ricardo reduced to a predatory ' cat ' , the brutish Pedro diminished to a subhuman creature . These descriptions of the three , however , actually occur in the first half of the book , the ...
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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