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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... strange , gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life ' ( p . 153 ) . On the level of ordinary human interaction alone , then , Victory is a novel of marvellous subtlety and insight , and in its ...
... strange , gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life ' ( p . 153 ) . On the level of ordinary human interaction alone , then , Victory is a novel of marvellous subtlety and insight , and in its ...
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... strange being without needs . ( p . 154 ) The girl , from her position a little above him , surveyed with still eyes the abstracted silence of the man on whom she now depended with a completeness of which she had not been vividly ...
... strange being without needs . ( p . 154 ) The girl , from her position a little above him , surveyed with still eyes the abstracted silence of the man on whom she now depended with a completeness of which she had not been vividly ...
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... strange new world of emotion into which he has been plunged . These four chap- ters - also intensely erotic - reveal ... strange hallucination ' ( p . 172 ) , a sense later echoed in words like ' visitation ' , ' strange intrusion ' ( p ...
... strange new world of emotion into which he has been plunged . These four chap- ters - also intensely erotic - reveal ... strange hallucination ' ( p . 172 ) , a sense later echoed in words like ' visitation ' , ' strange intrusion ' ( p ...
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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