Record Number: 28940
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'It is years since I have read "Candide" of course in French. I must tell you I have been immensely pleased by the particular quality of this translation.'
[Hence follow five lines of further praise for the translation.]
1900-1945
Date:Between 1919 and 10 May 1922
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:Bishopsbourne
Kent
Oswalds
(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:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author:François-Marie Arouet Voltaire
Title:Candide
Genre:Fiction, Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: F.B. Neumayer 1919, tgis edn. trans.by Dorset Chambers pseud. [i.e. Herman Irwell Woolf.
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:28940
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:2007
Vol:9
Page:242
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Borys Conrad, 10 May 1922, Oswalds.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923, (Cambridge, 2007), 9, p. 242, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28940, accessed: 13 February 2025
Additional Comments:
No evidence has been unearthed to indicate the dates of Conrad's first reading of "Candide" (1759), clearly many years before his reading of this translation. Hervouet (1990) comments in general on Voltaire's influence (p.252).