Record Number: 20276
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The "Mercure de France" notice is agreeable - and as he [Henry-Durand Davray] reproduces what I have been lately talking at him as to French fiction I am flattered.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Mar 1903 and 19 Mar 1903
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent Farm
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:3 Dec 1857
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility
Master mariner and author
Religion:Roman Catholic
Country of Origin:Poland
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsMercure de France Vol. 45 (March 1903)
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:20276
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1988
Vol:3
Page:26
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to William Blackwood, dated 19th March, 1903, Pent Farm.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907, (Cambridge, 1988), 3, p. 26, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20276, accessed: 03 May 2024
Additional Comments:
While all of Conrad's readings of reviews and notices of his own works have not been included, this reading experience is nevertheless included as an example of Conrad's reaction to his reception in France. Davray (see fn.3 p.26 of source text) praised the works of Kipling, Conrad and Wells as moving away from the perceived obsession of French fiction with sexual activities and offering 'something new, wit the attation of being remote, unknown and evoking with a slight shiver the Islands [of the east]. (Trans. by contributor).