skygiants: young Kiha from Legend of the First King's Four Gods in the library with a lit candle (flame of knowledge)
skygiants ([personal profile] skygiants) wrote 2019-08-12 01:06 am (UTC)

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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