| Evidence: | 'The "Mercure de France" notice is agreeable - and as he [Henry-Durand Davray] reproduces what I have been lately talking at him as to French fiction I am flattered.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Mar 1903 and 19 Mar 1903 | ||||||||||
| 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: | Henry-Durand Davray |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | Mercure de France Vol. 45 (March 1903) |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 20276 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1988 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 26 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to William Blackwood, dated 19th March, 1903, Pent Farm. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 26, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20276, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| While all of Conrad's readings of reviews and notices have not been included, this reading experience is nevertheless included as an example of Conrad's reaction to his reception in France. Davray (see fn.3 p.26 of source text) praised the works of Kipling, Conrad and Wells as moving away from the perceived obsession of French fiction with sexual activities and offering 'something new, attractively remote, unknown and evoking with a slight shiver the Islands [of the east]. (Trans. by contributer). |
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