Record Number: 28921

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thank you for the magazines and books. I haven't yet dipped into the novel. I am very touched by the favourable response of the critics to the translation [of "A Set of Six"]. The article in "Robotnik" is very good and has greatly pleased me.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1924 and 16 Mar 1924

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

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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:

Title:

Robotnik (The Worker)

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

(Daily of Polish Socialist Party)

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28921

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:

328

Additional Comments:

Letter in Polish from Joseph Conrad to Aniela Zagorska 16 March 1924, 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. 328, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28921, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

This non-specific evidence of reading is submitted to demonstrate Conrad's ongoing engagement with contemporary Polish criticism, including of his own work. Towards the end of his life he read and commented on many reviews of his own works, in three languages, though very few of these have been submitted as entries