English speakers judged existentialism for decades with almost no translations available

Evidence

American readers in these early years had very little original material to go on if they wanted to judge existentialism for themselves, and if they did not read French. Only a few fragments of Sartre’s and Beauvoir’s work had so far been translated, and these did not include either Nausea, first translated by Lloyd Alexander as The Diary of Antoine Roquentin in 1949, or Being and Nothingness, translated by Hazel Barnes in 1956. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 553

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Being and Time saw no complete French translation until 1985 — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1363; Translators favor readable English over literal fidelity while refusing simplification — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 78

Broader Connections

• Being and Time saw no complete French translation until 1985 #exemplifies (0.90) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1363
• Translators favor readable English over literal fidelity while refusing simplification #expands (0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 78