Carol Cosman

Carol Cosman (1943–2020) translated numerous French books over a range of genres—fiction, biography, memoirs, history, and philosophy.  In addition to her translation of short fiction by Balzac, her English version of Jean-Paul Sartre's three-thousand-page The Family Idiot is especially noteworthy.

 

 

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