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Comment by sbergjohansen

This is as good a place as any to mention that Koestler's long-lost original German manuscript titled "Sonnenfinsternis" was discovered in 2015 by a doctoral student digging through the archives of Zurich library. "Darkness at Noon" as known until then was a hastily completed translation into the English by Koestler's lover Daphne Hardy, available German versions being, in turn, back-translations from the English.

Both the German original and a new English translation have since been published.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18188912 (HN 2018)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_at_Noon

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