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Record Number: 28888


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I've lately read nothing but Marcel Proust.'

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

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

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:

28888

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:

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/RED/record_details.php?id=28888, 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 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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