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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... human consciousness , to dramatize the clash between what Jacques Berthoud has called two incompatible orders of reality . That often tragic clash in turn raises profoundly search- ing questions about the nature of human consciousness ...
... human consciousness , to dramatize the clash between what Jacques Berthoud has called two incompatible orders of reality . That often tragic clash in turn raises profoundly search- ing questions about the nature of human consciousness ...
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... human psyche ; Lord Jim begins with the mundane details of a water - clerk's duties in the shipping world of a great mercantile empire before introducing the dispossessed romantic fig- ure of the title ; Chance starts at a riverside inn ...
... human psyche ; Lord Jim begins with the mundane details of a water - clerk's duties in the shipping world of a great mercantile empire before introducing the dispossessed romantic fig- ure of the title ; Chance starts at a riverside inn ...
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... human being . ( p . 177 ) It is from this predicament that Captain Anthony rescues her . In Victory Lena , who regards herself as a mere ' fiddle - scraping girl ' , is so convinced of her own inferiority that even when Heyst has taken ...
... human being . ( p . 177 ) It is from this predicament that Captain Anthony rescues her . In Victory Lena , who regards herself as a mere ' fiddle - scraping girl ' , is so convinced of her own inferiority that even when Heyst has taken ...
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... human perception in general , for Conrad was acutely aware that what we call reality is in truth a limited and fragile human construct , as the Marlow of Lord Jim recognizes : For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a ...
... human perception in general , for Conrad was acutely aware that what we call reality is in truth a limited and fragile human construct , as the Marlow of Lord Jim recognizes : For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a ...
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... human kind doomed to perpetual suffering and misery , a doctrine exempli- fied by ( among others ) Schopenhauer ... humanity was to endow it with signifi- cance . The action of bearing witness to what he called ' the sublime spectacle ...
... human kind doomed to perpetual suffering and misery , a doctrine exempli- fied by ( among others ) Schopenhauer ... humanity was to endow it with signifi- cance . The action of bearing witness to what he called ' the sublime spectacle ...
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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