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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... appeared in different versions ( slightly so in the English and American editions , signifi- cantly so in serial and book form ) , and partly because he himself continued to revise them for subsequent publication . Moreover he was ...
... appeared in different versions ( slightly so in the English and American editions , signifi- cantly so in serial and book form ) , and partly because he himself continued to revise them for subsequent publication . Moreover he was ...
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... appearance and subjective value - will be paralleled by the changes Axel Heyst undergoes , precipitated by deep pressures from within and without which transform his consciousness without , however , altering his ' elemental ' identity ...
... appearance and subjective value - will be paralleled by the changes Axel Heyst undergoes , precipitated by deep pressures from within and without which transform his consciousness without , however , altering his ' elemental ' identity ...
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... appearance and stability of outer and inner reality ; the nature of identity and freedom and how these are bound up with community . Heyst's ' enchanted circle ' is not merely an actual location on the globe , but metaphorically ...
... appearance and stability of outer and inner reality ; the nature of identity and freedom and how these are bound up with community . Heyst's ' enchanted circle ' is not merely an actual location on the globe , but metaphorically ...
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... appearance and inner reality is a classic paradox dramatized throughout his fiction . As several critics have noted , the reserved and gentlemanlike Heyst is presented by the narrator through the partial and prejudiced eyes of others ...
... appearance and inner reality is a classic paradox dramatized throughout his fiction . As several critics have noted , the reserved and gentlemanlike Heyst is presented by the narrator through the partial and prejudiced eyes of others ...
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... appearance versus hidden reality , and to show conflicting views and interpretations of events . It effect- ively deploys what Ian Watt and Cedric Watts have called ' delayed decoding ' , the technique whereby the reader only grasps the ...
... appearance versus hidden reality , and to show conflicting views and interpretations of events . It effect- ively deploys what Ian Watt and Cedric Watts have called ' delayed decoding ' , the technique whereby the reader only grasps 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