Record Number: 34275
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have at last received Italo Svevo's books and and have read some of them, finding them quite charming. I do not quite gather what you want me to do about them. I fancy it is to write an introduction to a new volume of translations.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1931 and 9 Mar 1931
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Toulon
county: Var
specific address: 3 Quai du Parti
(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:17 Dec 1873
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Catholic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Confessions of Zeno
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsIn English or French translation
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:34275
Source:Ford Madox Ford
Editor:Richard M. Ludwig
Title:Letters of Ford Madox Ford
Place of Publication:Princeton, NJ
Date of Publication:1965
Vol:n/a
Page:199
Additional Comments:
Ford to James Joyce, 9 March 1931.
Citation:
Ford Madox Ford, Richard M. Ludwig (ed.), Letters of Ford Madox Ford, (Princeton, NJ, 1965), p. 199, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34275, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
'The Confessions of Zeno' was first translated into English in 1930 soon after Svevo's death and into French under Joyce's influence in 1927.