Evidence: | 'I've lately read nothing but Marcel Proust.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 22 Sep 1922 and 21 Nov 1922 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Bishopsbourne county: Kent specific address: Oswalds |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Joseph Conrad |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
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: | Marcel Proust |
Title: | Swann's Way (Du coté de chez Swann |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Chatto and Windus 1922 trans. by C.K. Scott Moncrieff |
Provenance: | owned sent by translator |
Record ID: | 28888 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 599 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Christopher Sandeman, dated 21 November 1922, 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. 599, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28888, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
See also letter to Jean Aubry 22 September 1922, (p.522 of source text), commenting on receipt of this translation and letter to C.K. Scott Moncrieff, 17 December 1922, (p.623 of source text) praising his translation. Conrad seems to have first read Proust in French in 1913 or 1914. See also Hervouet (1990) p.242-43. |
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