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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... course no one can hurt me ' ( p . 43 ) , becomes apparent when he finds himself unable to endure the thought of public calumny , of what the world would say : ' It would say , Lena , that I — that Swede - after luring my friend and ...
... course no one can hurt me ' ( p . 43 ) , becomes apparent when he finds himself unable to endure the thought of public calumny , of what the world would say : ' It would say , Lena , that I — that Swede - after luring my friend and ...
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... course fit for general reading . Strictly proper . Nothing to shock the magazine public . ( Letters , v . 114-15 ) Thus Conrad's preliminary synopsis to his agent J. B. Pinker , who was arranging magazine publication rights in the ...
... course fit for general reading . Strictly proper . Nothing to shock the magazine public . ( Letters , v . 114-15 ) Thus Conrad's preliminary synopsis to his agent J. B. Pinker , who was arranging magazine publication rights in the ...
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... course on one level it shows what would happen if that masculine fantasy were realized ; Heyst does indeed take Lena off to an island where he is ' all the world to her ' until the world itself enters to shatter their island idyll . But ...
... course on one level it shows what would happen if that masculine fantasy were realized ; Heyst does indeed take Lena off to an island where he is ' all the world to her ' until the world itself enters to shatter their island idyll . But ...
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... course the ' Preface ' to The Nigger of the ' Narcissus ' - is worth bearing in mind before turning to Victory and the sceptical views that are presented there . When the novel opens , it is clear that Axel Heyst's detached mode of ...
... course the ' Preface ' to The Nigger of the ' Narcissus ' - is worth bearing in mind before turning to Victory and the sceptical views that are presented there . When the novel opens , it is clear that Axel Heyst's detached mode of ...
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... course on one level the appearance of the trio is dramatic irony , coming as it does immedi- ately after Heyst's comment to Lena that ' nothing can break in on us here ' ( p . 170 ) , that there can be no ' voices ' from the outer world ...
... course on one level the appearance of the trio is dramatic irony , coming as it does immedi- ately after Heyst's comment to Lena that ' nothing can break in on us here ' ( p . 170 ) , that there can be no ' voices ' from the outer world ...
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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