Howitzers on the Hill
Neal Ascherson: ‘The Forty Days of Musa Dagh’, 8 March 2018
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
by Franz Werfel, translated by Geoffrey Dunlop, revised by James Reidel.
Penguin, 912 pp., £10.99, January 2018,978 0 241 33286 3 Show More
by Franz Werfel, translated by Geoffrey Dunlop, revised by James Reidel.
Penguin, 912 pp., £10.99, January 2018,
“... committed in the fog of war) persists to this day. The novel was translated into English by Geoffrey Dunlop in 1934. But Dunlop, a well-respected translator, decided to cut a substantial part of it: passages about Armenian culture and traditions, as well as ‘harrowing’ pages about the rape and slaughter of ... ”