Victory. E-book. Formato EPUB - 9782714906533

Victory. E-book. Formato EPUB. Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved &quot;popular success.&quot; The New York Times, however, called it &quot;an uneven book&quot; and &quot;more open to criticism than most of Mr. Conrad&#39;s best work.&quot;<br />The novel&#39;s &quot;most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective&quot; 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 has an omniscient narrator.<br />It has been adapted into film a number of times.<br /><br />Plot<br />Axel Heyst, the novel&#39;s protagonist, was raised by his widowed father, a Swedish philosopher, in London, England, and never knew his mother. The atmosphere of Heyst&#39;s home, with his father&#39;s ruthless pursuit of truth and pessimistic view of humanity, warps Heyst&#39;s mind, and after his father dies, he leaves England and becomes a rootless wanderer. This eventually leads him to the Southeastern Asia, especially to what is now Indonesia, including Surabaya&mdash;a port in the then-Dutch colony of Java.<br />|Wikipedia|