| Evidence: | 'It is years since I have read "Candide" of course in French. I must tell you I have been immensely pleased by the particular quality of this translation.'
[Hence follow five lines of further praise for the translation.] |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1919 and 10 May 1922 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | Bishopsbourne Kent Oswalds |
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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: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | François-Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| Title: | Candide |
| Genre: | Fiction, Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | London: F.B. Neumayer 1919, trans.by Dorset Chambers pseud. [i.e. Herman Irwell Woolf. |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 28940 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 2007 | |
| Vol: | 9 | |
| Page: | 242 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Borys Conrad, 10 May 1922, Oswalds. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923 (Cambridge, 2007), 9, p. 242, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28940, accessed: 01 June 2023 | |
| No evidence has been found for the dates of Conrad's first reading of "Candide" (1759), clearly many years before his reading of this translation. Hervouet (1990) comments in general on Voltaire's influence (p.252). |
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