Record Number: 18522
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
''I have finished "Yaga" - twice. I shall write nothing to you about it while I am still under its charm.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 16 Jan 1890 and 14 Feb 1890
Country:probably Poland
Timen/a
Place:other location: probably while travelling across Poland
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:3 Dec 1857
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:master mariner
Religion:originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist
Country of Origin:Poland
Country of Experience:probably Poland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Details1887 Revue des Deux Mondes
Provenanceowned
gift from author
Source Information:
Record ID:18522
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1983
Vol:1
Page:39
Additional Comments:
Letter (original in French) from Joseph Conrad signed as 'Conrad Korzeniowski') dated 14 February 1890 written en route to Kazimierowska, Poland, to Marguerite Poradowska (born Marguerite Gachet in Brussels and addresed by Conrad as Tante Margot),wife of Aleksander Poradowsky, who had died in February 1890, a first cousin of Conrad's maternal grandmother.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 39, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18522, accessed: 23 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Conrad would certainly have read this text in French.
