| Evidence: | 'You say [in Walpole's critical study "Joseph Conrad"(1916)] that I have been under the formative influence of "Madame Bovary". In fact I have read it only after finishing "A.[Almayer's] F.[Folly]" as I did all the other works of Flaubert; and anyway my Flaubert is the Flaubert of "St. Antoine" and "Ed[ucation] Sent[imentale]" and that only from the point of view of rendering of concrete things and visual impressions.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1894 and 7 Jun 1918 | ||||||||||
| 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: | Gustave Flaubert |
| Title: | Madame Bovary |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | first published Paris: Charpentier, 1857. The specific French edition read by Conrad unidentified |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 28582 | |
| 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: | 228 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Hugh Walpole dated 7 June 1918, 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. 228, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28582, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| There is some confusion as to when Conrad first read Flaubert (see Hervouet, 1990 pp.10-13). Record ID.18526 indicates an earlier date, and Record ID.25760 indicates frequent re-reading. This current record is submitted since it appears to contradict earlier evidence, suggesting that the text was only first read after 1894. No separate entry is recorded concerning the experiences of reading the other two novels mentioned. Conrad's reading of a critical work concerning himself has not been recorded. |
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