Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published on 24 September 1915, through which Conrad achieved "popular success." 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 has an omniscient narrator. It has been adapted into film a number of times.
Adaptations (3)
Victory has been adapted into 3 films, from 1919 to 1987. The most recent is Devil's Paradise (1987).
Victory1919 · film · 62 min · dir. Maurice Tourneur · IMDb ↗IMDb6.5Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.
Victory1940 · film · 79 min · dir. John Cromwell · IMDb ↗IMDb7.0A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
Devil's Paradise1987 · film · 94 min · dir. Vadim Glowna · IMDb ↗IMDb5.1At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes her with him to his island. Her former captors soon find the island as well.
