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Record Number: 26702


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said anything but someone has filched my copy; and I wanted to get the book from you. As to the volume of criticism, all I can tell you is that I am so much in accord with the sentiment of this book that the sympathy--permit me to say affection-- that I felt for you from the first moment is infinitely increased.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1909 and 31 Dec 1909

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Aldington, Nr Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Forehead

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

André Gide

Title:

L'Immoraliste

Genre:

Fiction, Autobiog / Diary,

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

first published in limited edition 1902, unknown which edition Conrad had read;

Provenance

owned
present from H-D Davray


Source Information:

Record ID:

26702

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

4

Page:

528

Additional Comments:

Trans. of letter in French from Joseph Conrad to André Gide dated 26 December 1911, Capel House.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 528, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=26702, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Place of experience speculative but by the second half of 1909, the likely time frame of the reading experience, Conrad was in living in Aldington.

   
   
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