Evidence: | 'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [de Busowska]" and am pleased to have read it in French and in your adaptation, for I think it must be tiring indeed in Polish if [Ladislas] Lozinski - like the others - is in the habit of "marking time" as you put it. Naturally I do not find there the "relief", the distinct style one finds in "Yaga", but I recognise with very great pleasure the language, style, indeed almost all the purely literary pleasure the reading of "Yaga" gave me. The fact is that, restored in appetite (if I may express myself so), I have just reread "Yaga"-which I like more than ever.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 13 Sep 1891 and 15 Sep 1891 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: 17 Gillingham St SW |
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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 |
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) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Marguerite Poradowska |
Title: | La Madone de Busowiska, moeurs houtsoules |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | La Revue des Deux Mondes, 1891 |
Provenance: | owned gift from author |
Record ID: | 18523 | |
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Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1983 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 94 | |
Additional comments: | Letter in French from Joseph Conrad to Marguerite Poradowska dated 15 September 1891 , London. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 94, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18523, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
The text referred to is Marguerite Poradowska's French adaptation of the a novella published in 1886 by the Polish writer Ladislas Lozinski (1843-1914) |
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