these characters are yearning, yearning…

Book review:

Victory

by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928

412 pages

It may be that it is enough to say about Victory that it is lush prose that wraps around your mind and leaves you sated at the end of every chapter.

Conrad’s style, I dare to say, is not for every modern taste. It is dialogue-rich. The action is spare. For me, the essential appeal of Victory is the reflective context of the characters’ state of mind: their imaginations, their aspirations, their candid self-assessments.

In Victory, there is enough honesty, enough resignation, enough disappointment, enough yearning to make you feel like you want to claim that your life is good.

At least, good enough.

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Victory…Joseph Conrad is good…book review