| Evidence: | 'I wanted to write to you about Your book [...] you know how paralysed one is sometimes-- and then we had talked--I had tried to talk of the book so many times that it seemed to have become part of me, that part of belief amd thought so intimate that it cannot be put into speech as if it cannot live apart from one coherent self.' [See also additional comments]. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1900 and 5 Sep 1900 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Stanford near Hythe county: Kent specific address: Pent Farm |
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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 and author |
| 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, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | John Galsworthy |
| Title: | The Villa Rubein |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1900 published under the name of John Sinjohn |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19369 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1986 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 302-303 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy, dated 7th November 1900, Pent Farm. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 302-303, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19369, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| The nature of Conrad's reaction to this book is unclear from the evidence here. In an earlier letter to Galsworthy's sister Mabel Reynolds 5th September 1900 Conrad comments that the story "The Cosmopolitan" (later to appear as "A Knight" ) is 'in the clearness of the idea superior to the "Villa"'. The overall tone of the letter to Galsworthy suggest some reluctance to comment. |
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