| Evidence: | 'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a boy I remember reading "Smoke" in a Polish translation (a feuilleton of some newspaper) and the "Gentlefolks" in French.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1867 and 1873 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Poland or Russia | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Joseph Conrad |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 3 Dec 1857 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | child |
| Religion: | Polish Catholic |
| Country of origin: | Poland |
| Country of experience: | Poland or Russia |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Ivan Turgenev |
| Title: | Smoke |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: newspaper supplement/magazine ('feuilleton') |
| Publication details: | first published in Russian in 1867, no information available on early Polish translation being read |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 28288 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 2002 | |
| Vol: | 6 | |
| Page: | 77 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett dated late April 1917, Capel House |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919 (Cambridge, 2002), 6, p. 77, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28288, accessed: 30 May 2023 | |
| The date range of this reading experience is speculative but covers the period of Conrad's adolescence in Poland and Russia. |
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