Evidence: | 'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me. I can do no serious reading. I have just begun to write -only the day before yesterday.["The Two Vagabonds" subsequently to become "An Outcast of the Islands"(1896)] |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 8 Aug 1894 and 18 Aug 1894 | ||||||||||
Country: | Switzerland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Geneva specific address: 'La Roseraie'. Champel |
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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: | Switzerland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Anatole France |
Title: | Le Lys Rouge |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Paris:Calmann-Levy, 1894 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18582 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 171 | |
Additional comments: | Letter in French to Marguerite Poradowska, probably 18 August 1894, Geneva |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 171, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18582, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Conrad's relationship with the works of Anatole France, initially as here, un-engaged, matured slowly and influenced considerably his later works 1900-1908. (Yves Hervouet 'The French Face of Jospeph Conrad' Cambridge, 1990, pp.149-164). |
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