Evidence: | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published secretly under the Nazis in France. Read also too slow a story by Giono of the coming of Pan: it quickens at the end where human beings and animals dance together, with regrettable results [...] Read too in Illusions Perdues [...] and in Gide's Journal [...] Gide aroused my envy by reading, reading, but if I kept a journal I too should appear to have read, read a lot.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1943 and 31 Dec 1943 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Edward Morgan Forster |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1 Jan 1879 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Honore de Balzac |
Title: | Illusions perdues |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21209 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | E. M. Forster | |
Editor: | Philip Gardner | |
Title: | Commonplace Book | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1985 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 155 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | E. M. Forster, Philip Gardner (ed.), Commonplace Book (London, 1985), p. 155, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21209, accessed: 09 December 2023 |
See also p.161 in source for further comments on reading of this text, from Forster's 1943 Commonplace Book, where Forster remarks on 'the bad taste of Balzac, his unpolished journalistic style, his formlessness, his unevenness, his obsession with money,' concluding: 'Having never had to earn my living, I pick faults in him where I can.' |
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