Record Number: 18523
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [de Busowska]" and am pleased to have read it in French and in your adaptation, for I think it must be tiring indeed in Polish if [Ladislas] Lozinski - like the others - is in the habit of "marking time" as you put it. Naturally I do not find there the "relief", the distinct style one finds in "Yaga", but I recognise with very great pleasure the language, style, indeed almost all the purely literary pleasure the reading of "Yaga" gave me. The fact is that, restored in appetite (if I may express myself so), I have just reread "Yaga"-which I like more than ever.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 13 Sep 1891 and 15 Sep 1891
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: 17 Gillingham St SW1
(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:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:La Madone de Busowiska, moeurs houtsoules
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsLa Revue des Deux Mondes, 1891
Provenanceowned
gift from author
Source Information:
Record ID:18523
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:94
Additional Comments:
Letter in French from Joseph Conrad to Marguerite Poradowska dated 15 September 1891 , London.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897, (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 94, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18523, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
The text referred to is Marguerite Poradowska's French adaptation of the a novella published in 1886 by the Polish writer Ladislas Lozinski (1843-1914)