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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... side of his psyche ( signifi- cantly , Heyst's mother is a nameless figure only mentioned once : ' His mother Heyst had never known ' ( p . 73 ) ) . It is this girl , whom Heyst saves on impulse , whom he does not understand though he ...
... side of his psyche ( signifi- cantly , Heyst's mother is a nameless figure only mentioned once : ' His mother Heyst had never known ' ( p . 73 ) ) . It is this girl , whom Heyst saves on impulse , whom he does not understand though he ...
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... side . The arrival of Jones , Ricardo , and Pedro indicates no decline into melodrama but rather exemplifies an encounter with ' the uncanny ' , when the familiar everyday world takes on a truly terrifying unfamiliarity . As Freud ...
... side . The arrival of Jones , Ricardo , and Pedro indicates no decline into melodrama but rather exemplifies an encounter with ' the uncanny ' , when the familiar everyday world takes on a truly terrifying unfamiliarity . As Freud ...
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... side of the island.31 The novel contrasts the doglike devotion of Pedro for Jones ( like Stevie's for Verloc or the Harlequin's for Kurtz an unthinking abnegation of self- responsibility ) with that of Lena for Heyst , which accepts it ...
... side of the island.31 The novel contrasts the doglike devotion of Pedro for Jones ( like Stevie's for Verloc or the Harlequin's for Kurtz an unthinking abnegation of self- responsibility ) with that of Lena for Heyst , which accepts it ...
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... sides of the Atlantic was complicated by its having appeared first as a serial in the American Munsey's Magazine issue ( no . 54 ) of February 1915 ( pp . 112–240 ) in a text which had been tampered with , much to Conrad's dismay : ' I ...
... sides of the Atlantic was complicated by its having appeared first as a serial in the American Munsey's Magazine issue ( no . 54 ) of February 1915 ( pp . 112–240 ) in a text which had been tampered with , much to Conrad's dismay : ' I ...
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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