| Evidence: | 'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité , "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense passages of "Madame Bovary", "La Nuit", "Ce Cochon de Morin" and immense passages of "Une Vie" by heart. Or so nearly by heart that what the one faltered over the other could take up.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 1896 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Joseph Conrad |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 3 Dec 1857 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry 'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility |
| Occupation: | Master mariner and author |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
| 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: | Gustave Flaubert |
| Title: | Trois Contes |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Paris: G.Charpentier, 1877 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 29011 | |
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| Author: | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1924 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 36 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer), Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (London, 1924), p. 36, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29011, accessed: 18 May 2013 | |
| Submitted as evidence of repeated reading, by both men. Félicité is the central character in "Un Coeur simple" and this with "St-Julien l'Hospitalier" forms part of the collection "Trois Contes". |
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