The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad by Joseph Conrad (review)

Since Conrad's French was comprehensible to me (although I had no formal qualifications in French), I deemed a translation unnecessary; but American reviewers soon persuaded me that a translation of the French would have been helpful. [...]that valuable but marred edition of the novels, tales,...

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Published inConradiana Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 100 - 104
Main Author Watts, Cedric
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lubbock Texas Tech University Press 01.04.2016
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Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)
Epistolography
Lawrence, D H (1885-1930)
Literary devices
Literary translation
Literature
Novels
Publishing
Publishing industry
Scholarly publishing
Translations
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Summary:Since Conrad's French was comprehensible to me (although I had no formal qualifications in French), I deemed a translation unnecessary; but American reviewers soon persuaded me that a translation of the French would have been helpful. [...]that valuable but marred edition of the novels, tales, essays, and autobiographical writings shows by contrast the skill and tact of the editors of the correspondence. [...]the Cambridge edition of Conrad's letters seems a triumph of academic publishing. (509) This was a finely courteous way of saying, in effect, "Please don't think that it is because you are a Labour Prime Minister that I am declining this knighthood."
ISSN:0010-6356
1935-0252
1935-0252
DOI:10.1353/cnd.2016.0011