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Victory. psychological NOVEL By: Joseph Conrad

Victory. psychological NOVEL By: Joseph Conrad

Conrad, Joseph

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1535324880
ISBN13: 9781535324885
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 16 2016
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved popular success. The New York Times, however, called it an uneven book and more open to criticism than most of Mr. Conrad's best work. The novel's most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior perspective from Heyst, and the final section. It has been adapted into film a number of times Through a business misadventure, the European Axel Heyst ends up living on an island in what is now Indonesia, with a Chinese assistant Wang. Heyst visits a nearby island when a female band is playing at a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg. Schomberg attempts to force himself sexually on one of the band members, Alma, later called Lena. She flees with Heyst back to his island and they become lovers. Schomberg seeks revenge by attempting to frame Heyst for the murder of a man who had died of natural causes and later by sending three desperadoes (Pedro, Martin Ricardo and Mr. Jones) to Heyst's island with a lie about treasure hidden on the island. The three die (Wang kills one) but Lena dies as well and Axel is overcome with grief and commits suicide. In Notes on My Books: Easyread Edition, Conrad wrote of his mixed feelings about the initial reception of the book which had been published while Europe had been engaged in fighting the great war.[5] The initial reception of the work had considered it a melodramatic, rather Victorian novel, representing Conrad's artistic decline. However, later critiques have described it as a highly complex allegorical work whose psychological landscape and narrative structure lay the groundwork for the modern novel. The character of Heyst has been compared to Shakespeare's Hamlet[8] with the story itself drawing heavily on The Tempestand the ending of the work like an Elizabethan stageplay where the stage is clogged with corpses Allen Simmons states that the character of Lena was shaped by Therese from the 1894 French novel Le Lys rouge[9] ('The Red Lily'), by Anatole France.

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