Record Number: 28288
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev. As a boy I remember reading "Smoke" in a Polish translation (a feuilleton of some newspaper) and the "Gentlefolks" in French.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1867 and 1873
Country:Poland or Russia
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:3 Dec 1857
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility
child
Religion:Polish Catholic
Country of Origin:Poland
Country of Experience:Poland or Russia
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Smoke
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: newspaper supplement/magazine ('feuilleton')
Publication Detailsfirst published in Russian in 1867, no information available on early Polish translation being read
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28288
Source: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://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28288, accessed: 23 April 2024
Additional Comments:
The date range of this reading experience is speculative but covers the period of Conrad's adolescence in Poland and Russia.
