Record Number: 34281
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'But if you wanted to please me you could do what you could to log roll René Béhaine who, in the eyes of Léon Daudet and myself and other worthy people , passes for the greatest living novelist in the world—who also has been writing one masterpiece for upwards of twenty years and who, heaven help us, is quite as unpopular as either you or I.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1908 and 8 Oct 1933
Country:France
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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: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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Histoire d'une Sociéte
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsAt this time 9 of total of 16 titles in the series (1908-1933) had appeared, from Charpentier 1908, others from Grasset
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:34281
Source: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:225
Additional Comments:
Ford to Ezra Pound, 8 October 1933
Citation:
Ford Madox Ford, Richard M. Ludwig (ed.), Letters of Ford Madox Ford, (Princeton, NJ, 1965), p. 225, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34281, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Ford later, in 1938, wrote a preface to Edward Crankshaw's translation of the second title in the series "Les survivants"/"The Survivors" (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
