Record Number: 18582
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me. I can do no serious reading. I have just begun to write -only the day before yesterday.["The Two Vagabonds" subsequently to become "An Outcast of the Islands"(1896)]
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 8 Aug 1894 and 18 Aug 1894
Country:Switzerland
Timen/a
Place:city: Geneva
specific address: 'La Roseraie'. Champel
(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
Religion:Roman Catholic
Country of Origin:Poland
Country of Experience:Switzerland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Le Lys Rouge
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsParis:Calmann-Lévy, 1894
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18582
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1983
Vol:1
Page:171
Additional Comments:
Letter in French to Marguerite Poradowska, probably 18 August 1894, Geneva
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897, (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 171, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18582, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
Conrad's relationship with the works of Anatole France, initially as here, un-engaged, matured slowly and influenced considerably his later works 1900-1908. (from Yves Hervouet 'The French Face of Joseph Conrad' Cambridge, 1990, pp.149-164).
