Record Number: 26475
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have an idea dear Jack that any comment on your work can be nothing by now but ( in the words of the Pole in "[A] Lear of the Steppes"), "perfectly superfluous chatter". '
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1898 and 30 Dec
Country:unknown
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:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:3 Dec 1857
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility
Master mariner and author
Religion:Roman Catholic
Country of Origin:Poland
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsAlmost certainly Constance Garnett's translation (Heinemann, 1898) of the 1870 text
Provenanceowned
almost certainly sent to Conrad by Edward Garnett.
Source Information:
Record ID:26475
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:4
Page:381
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy dated 27 October, 1910 Capel House.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911, (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 381, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=26475, accessed: 04 October 2024
Additional Comments:
The reference is to Kvitzinsky the manager in the title story (fn.1, p.381 of source text.) It is known (Knowles and Moore 2000, p.376) that Conrad's immersed himself in reading Turgenev's works as soon as they appeared in Garnett's translations between 1895 and 1900.
