Record Number: 20276

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Reading Experience:

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.'

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

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

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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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

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

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20276

Source:

Print

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/RED/record_details.php?id=20276, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

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).