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| Original Title: | An Island Tale |
| ISBN: | 0140189785 (ISBN13: 9780140189780) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Axel Heyst, Mr. Schomberg, Martin Ricardo |
Joseph Conrad
Paperback | Pages: 410 pages Rating: 3.85 | 3147 Users | 271 Reviews
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| Title | : | Victory |
| Author | : | Joseph Conrad |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 410 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 1995 by Penguin Classics (first published 1915) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature |
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Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from the detachment and isolation that have inhibited and influenced his life.Marked by a violent and tragic conclusion, Victory is both a tale of rescue and adventure and a perceptive study of a complex relationship and of the power of love.Rating Containing Books Victory
Ratings: 3.85 From 3147 Users | 271 ReviewsEvaluate Containing Books Victory
From BBC Radio 4 - Drama:The world premiere of Harold Pinter's screenplay of Josef Conrad's last major novel, in a special adaptation for radio by Sir Richard Eyre.It's 1900 in the Dutch East Indies. Disenchanted with life and humanity, Heyst, a mysterious Swedish Baron, lives alone on a deserted island.He believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others, but his life is altered when he visits the neighbouring island for a doctor's check up. Here he meets and falls in love withIf you feel like reading a complex psychological novel that will make you ponder the meaning of life, this is a book for you. Not that you will be provided with any definite answers, mind you. Victory strikes me as a rather ambiguous work, one that is (intentionally left) open to interpretations. Consequently, if you like clear questions and answers, this is not a novel for you, for there is a lot to ponder in this one. Nevertheless, I must hurry to add the novel is not written as a
I often struggle with the classics and classic authors. This book is delightful in that it's a slice of another time, but it's "literature" in the sense that nothing fantastical happens. Nothing much happens at all, really. We have characters in an tropical locale, a small town in the Malay Archipelago. Axel Heyst is a loner who seems to have a stereotypical heart of gold he's willing to help anyone that asks, even though he largely prefers to keep to himself in an abandoned coal mining
Strange to read a classic, be caught up in its story, only to find myself surfacing two thirds through and realizing that the thing is flawed. Heavy-handed Christian allegory, bizarre and artificial conceptions of gender (even for the time), unresolved narrative gapsVictory is a book that wants to be beautiful, but stumbles too much in being meaningful. Yes, this isn't out of character for contemporary works (or even some unfortunate books of our moment), but the further the narrative carries,
Conrad really nailed it with this one. In the preface he writes that he wrote it as a single piece - not as a serial published in periodicals - and it shows. The narrative hijinks that he deployed in his earlier novels has been tamed. This makes this novel succeed as a thriller.But like the books of John le Carré, another author I'm reading the complete works of, "Victory" is a thriller with benefits. These benefits are astounding characters, unmatched psychological depth and the best writing
2.5 StarsA very slow start kinda marred the entire book. It took forever to get into, so even when it got more interesting, I hardly cared.
One of my favorite writers is Graham Greene and one if his favorite writers is Joseph Conrad-thus I feel he deserves my attention for that reason alone. But Conrad casts a much larger shadow than that. I read Heart of Darkness in high school and was impressed by the artistry of the story as much as the film it later inspired. I felt the need to read more Conrad in my post-college days and read Lord Jim and in recent years and The Secret Agent since it was referenced heavily in the post 9/11 days
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