Record Number: 34275

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have at last received Italo Svevo's books and and have read some of them, finding them quite charming. I do not quite gather what you want me to do about them. I fancy it is to write an introduction to a new volume of translations.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1931 and 9 Mar 1931

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Toulon
county: Var
specific address: 3 Quai du Parti

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Ford Madox Ford

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

17 Dec 1873

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Catholic

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

France

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Italo Svevo

Title:

Confessions of Zeno

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

In English or French translation

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

34275

Source:

Print

Author:

Ford Madox Ford

Editor:

Richard M. Ludwig

Title:

Letters of Ford Madox Ford

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ

Date of Publication:

1965

Vol:

n/a

Page:

199

Additional Comments:

Ford to James Joyce, 9 March 1931.

Citation:

Ford Madox Ford, Richard M. Ludwig (ed.), Letters of Ford Madox Ford, (Princeton, NJ, 1965), p. 199, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34275, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

'The Confessions of Zeno' was first translated into English in 1930 soon after Svevo's death and into French under Joyce's influence in 1927.