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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... feeling over intellect — but that in its remarkably discerning and subtle analysis of Axel Heyst's and Lena's psyches , Victory represents a significant advance in his development as an artist . [ Readers unfamiliar with the novel may ...
... feeling over intellect — but that in its remarkably discerning and subtle analysis of Axel Heyst's and Lena's psyches , Victory represents a significant advance in his development as an artist . [ Readers unfamiliar with the novel may ...
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... feeling that if only he could get hold of her , no woman would belong to him so completely as this woman . ( p . 224 ) An earlier , less subtle and discerning treatment of such dangerous fantasy occurred in An Outcast of the Islands ...
... feeling that if only he could get hold of her , no woman would belong to him so completely as this woman . ( p . 224 ) An earlier , less subtle and discerning treatment of such dangerous fantasy occurred in An Outcast of the Islands ...
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... feeling is like [ ... ] And she had nothing to fall back upon , no experience but such as to shake her belief in every human being . ( p . 177 ) It is from this predicament that Captain Anthony rescues her . In Victory Lena , who ...
... feeling is like [ ... ] And she had nothing to fall back upon , no experience but such as to shake her belief in every human being . ( p . 177 ) It is from this predicament that Captain Anthony rescues her . In Victory Lena , who ...
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... feels so hopelessly barren in declared pessimism is just its arrogance [ ... ] That frame of mind is not the proper one in which to approach seriously the art of fiction [ ... ] To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to ...
... feels so hopelessly barren in declared pessimism is just its arrogance [ ... ] That frame of mind is not the proper one in which to approach seriously the art of fiction [ ... ] To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to ...
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... feels he has gained . But under the stress of Morrison's 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 ...
... feels he has gained . But under the stress of Morrison's 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 ...
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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