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Record Number: 18524


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [de Busowska]" and am pleased to have read it in French and in your adaptation, for I think it must be tiring indeed in Polish if [Ladislas] Lozinski - like the others - is in the habit of "marking time" as you put it. Naturally I do not find there the "relief", the distinct style one finds in "Yaga", but I recognise with very great pleasure the language, style, indeed almost all the purely literary pleasure the reading of "Yaga" gave me. The fact is that, restored in appetite (if I may express myself so), I have just reread "Yaga"-which I like more than ever.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 13 Sep 1891 and 15 Sep 1891

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: 17 Gillingham St SW London

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Joseph Conrad

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:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Marguerite Poradowska

Title:

Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Revue des Deux Mondes, 1st and 15th August 1887 and in 1888 by Ollendorf in Paris

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

18524

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

94

Additional Comments:

Letter in French from Joseph Conrad to Marguerite Poradowska dated 15 September 1891, London.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 94, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18524, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Conrad is rereading 'Yaga', first read in 1887 (Record 18522).

   
   
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