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Record 28897

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Your Comédie du Laboratoire is perfect. Très chic — as French painters used to say of their pictures. This formula expresses the highest praise.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1923 and 6 Apr 1923
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 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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Bruno Winawer
Title: Roztwor profesora Pytla (Professor Pytel's Solution)
Genre: Drama
Form of Text: Print: Book, or playscript
Publication details: Warsaw: 1922
Provenance: n/a

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28897  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Laurence Davies and Gene M. Moore
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 8,1923-1924
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 2008
  Vol: 8
  Page: 73
  Additional comments: Letter mostly in Polish, from Joseph Conrad to Bruno Winawer dated 6 April 1923, Oswalds

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and Gene M. Moore (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 8,1923-1924 (Cambridge, 2008), 8, p. 73, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28897, accessed: 29 March 2024

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