I've also never read any Barbara Comyns! I really need to expand my repertoire of midcentury women writers.
And yes, there have been several translations -- the first appeared in 1933, but the von Ankum one is indeed the most recent. I really like the translation, though I sort of made dubious faces at her intro analysis, in which she compares the book to Bridget Jones' Diary and Sex and the City -- not that there's no points of comparison but I do feel that Keuns' project is, uh, somewhat different.
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And yes, there have been several translations -- the first appeared in 1933, but the von Ankum one is indeed the most recent. I really like the translation, though I sort of made dubious faces at her intro analysis, in which she compares the book to Bridget Jones' Diary and Sex and the City -- not that there's no points of comparison but I do feel that Keuns' project is, uh, somewhat different.