Record Number: 28853

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. The international murderess episodes take but a little space after all. The whole thing is disagreeable and often incomprehensible in comment and psychology. Often it is gratuitously ferocious. You now I am not squeamish. The other work the great hstorical machine is called "Ashes" (Popioly). Both of course have a certain greatness.[...] [but] both take too much for granted in the way of receptivity and tolerance.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

England or Poland

Time

n/a

Place:

city
county
specific address

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

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 or Poland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Stefan Zeromski

Title:

Popioly

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1904 (?1902) Warsaw, publisher unknown

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28853

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

2005

Vol:

7

Page:

336

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett 2 September 1921, Oswalds

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922, (Cambridge, 2005), 7, p. 336, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28853, accessed: 25 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

see fn.2 p.336 of source text. It is not known when Conrad, who met the author in Poland in 1914, read this novel. It was not translated into English (as "Ashes") until 1928.