| Evidence: | 'I have an idea dear Jack that any comment on your work can be nothing by now but ( in the words of the Pole in "[A] Lear of the Steppes"), "perfectly superfluous chatter". ' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1898 and 30 Dec | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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 and author |
| Religion: | originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist |
| Country of origin: | Poland |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Ivan Turgenev |
| Title: | A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Almost certainly Constance Garnett's translation (Heinemann, 1898) of the 1870 text |
| Provenance: | owned almost certainly sent to Conrad by Edward Garnett. |
| Record ID: | 26475 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 381 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy dated 27 October, 1910 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. 381, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26475, accessed: 30 May 2023 | |
| The reference is to Kvitzinsky the manager in the title story (fn.1, p.381 of source text.) It is known (Knowles and Moore 2000, p.376) that Conrad's immersed himself in reading Turgenev's works as soon as they appeared in Garnett's translations between 1895 and 1900. |
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