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All German original manuscripts of Arthur Koestler’s first two novels (__The Gladiators__ and __Darkness at noon__) were lost during World War II. A MS of each was recently recovered, allowing for the first time a comparison with their initial English translations, for almost 80 years the basis of all other translations. Both novels will be published in German and in a new English translation that allows comparison with the original English editions. This article provides context for the first translation of __Der Sklavenkrieg__ by Edith Simon (1917–2003), through correspondence with Simon’s younger sister Inge Simon Goodwin (1923–2014), and Simon’s daughter, Antonia Reeve. It also briefly addresses some editorial changes in the table of contents for __The Gladiators__, anomalies within Simon’s rendition of descriptive prose, and an example of Simon’s skills as translator of Koestler’s imaginative prose. These are preliminary observations only, in anticipation of the novel’s retranslation and republication in 2018.

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Author

Henry Innes MacAdam

Publisher

Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad e Murcia; Universidad de Murcia; Murcia: Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de Murcia; Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia (ISSN 1578-7044)

Published

2017

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)