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Record 28889

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'In the volumes you sent me I was much more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation.'
[Hence follows another page and a half of commentary on the translation and on Proust in general.]
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 22 Sep 1922 and 17 Dec 1922
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Bishopsbourne
county: Kent
specific address: Oswalds
   
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 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

 

Text Being Read:

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

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28889  
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: 623
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to C.K. Scott Moncrieff, dated 17 December 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. 623, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28889, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

See also letter to Jean Aubry 22 September 1922, (p.522 of source text, commenting on receipt of this translation, and record ID 28888. Conrad seems to have first read Proust in French in 1913 or 1914. See Hervouet (1990) p.242-43

 

 

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