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Record 28853

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. The international murderess episodes take but a little space after all. The whole thing is disagreeable and often incomprehensible in comment and psychology. Often it is gratuitously ferocious. You now I am not sqeamish. The other work the great hstorical machine is called "Ashes" (Popioly). Both of course have a certain greatness.[...] [but] both take too much for granted in the way of receptivity and tolerance.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: unknown
Country: England or Poland
Time: n/a
Place: city
county
specific address
   
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 and author
Religion: originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist
Country of origin: Poland
Country of experience: England or Poland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Stefan Zeromski
Title: Popioly
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1904 (?1902) Warsaw, publisher unknown
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28853  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 2005
  Vol: 7
  Page: 336
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett 2 September 1921, Oswalds

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922 (Cambridge, 2005), 7, p. 336, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28853, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

see fn.2 p.336 of source text. It is not known when Conrad who met the author in Poland in 1914, read this novel. It was not translated into English (as "Ashes") until 1928.

 

 

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