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Eric Mosbacher (22 December 1903 – 2 July 1998) was an English journalist and translator from Italian, French, German and Spanish. He translated work by
Ignazio Silone Secondino Tranquilli (1 May 1900 – 22 August 1978), known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone (, ), was an Italian political leader, novelist, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-fascist novels. He was no ...
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Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...
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Life

Eric Mosbacher was born in London. He was educated at St Paul's School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating in 1924 in French and Italian. After working on local newspapers, he worked for the '' Daily Express'' and then the ''
Evening Standard The ''Evening Standard'', formerly ''The Standard'' (1827–1904), also known as the ''London Evening Standard'', is a local free daily newspaper in London, England, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format. In October 2009, after be ...
''. He also worked as assistant editor of the weekly ''Everyman'' and editor of ''Anglo-American News'', the London journal of the
American Chamber of Commerce The United States Chamber of Commerce (USCC) is the largest lobbying group in the United States, representing over three million businesses and organizations. The group was founded in April 1912 out of local chambers of commerce at the urgin ...
. Mosbacher's wife, Gwenda David, introduced him to the work of Ignazio Silone, and the pair translated Silone's anti-Fascist novel ''
Fontamara '' Fontamara'' is a 1933 novel by the Italian author Ignazio Silone, written when he was a refugee from the Fascist Police in Davos, Switzerland. It is Silone's first novel and is regarded as his most famous work. It received worldwide acclaim ...
'' in 1934. Often working in collaboration with his wife, Mosbacher continued translating in parallel with his other jobs. During World War II he worked as an interpreter interrogating Italian prisoners of war before joining the
Political Warfare Executive During World War II, the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) was a British clandestine body created to produce and disseminate both white and black propaganda, with the aim of damaging enemy morale and sustaining the morale of countries occupied ...
in 1943, working alongside
Sefton Delmer Denis Sefton Delmer (24 May 1904, Berlin, Germany – 4 September 1979, Lamarsh, Essex) was a British journalist of Australian heritage and propagandist for the British government during the Second World War. Fluent in German, he became friendl ...
to produce a German-language newspaper to be dropped on Germany each night. In June 1945 he was sent to the
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, now occupied by the British, to encourage a free press by starting two German-language newspapers there, ''Kolnischer Kurier'' and ''Ruhr-Zeitung''. Demobilized in 1946 at the rank of lieutenant-colonel, Mosbacher was a public relations officer for the Ministry of Town and Country Planning before joining ''
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'' as a sub-editor in 1948. Resigning from the ''Times'' in 1960, he continued to work at translation.


Translations

* (with Gwenda David) ''
Fontamara '' Fontamara'' is a 1933 novel by the Italian author Ignazio Silone, written when he was a refugee from the Fascist Police in Davos, Switzerland. It is Silone's first novel and is regarded as his most famous work. It received worldwide acclaim ...
'' by Ignazio Silone. London: Methuen & Co., 1934. * (with Gwenda David) ''Spiridonova: revolutionary terrorist'' by
Isaac Steinberg Isaac Nachman Steinberg (russian: Исаак Нахман Штейнберг; 13 July 1888 – 2 January 1957) was a lawyer, Socialist Revolutionary, politician, a leader of the Jewish Territorialist movement and writer in Soviet Russia and in ex ...
. London: Methuen & Co., 1935. * (with Gwenda David) ''The last civilian'' by
Ernst Glaeser Ernst Glaeser (29 July 1902 – 8 February 1963) was a German writer, known for his best-selling pacifist novel ''Jahrgang 1902'' ("Born in 1902"). He was associated with the political left, and went into exile in Switzerland at the start of the N ...
. London: Nicholson & Watson, 1936. * (with Gwenda David) ''Karl Marx: man and fighter'' by
Boris Nicolaevsky Boris Ivanovich Nicolaevsky (russian: Бори́с Ива́нович Никола́евский) (20 October 1887 – 22 February 1966) was a Russian Marxist activist, archivist, and historian. Nicolaevsky is best remembered as one of the leading ...
and
Otto Maenchen-Helfen Otto John Maenchen-Helfen (German: Otto Mänchen-Helfen; July 26, 1894 – January 29, 1969) was an Austrian academic, sinologist, historian, author, and traveler. From 1927 to 1930, he worked at the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow, and from 193 ...
. London: Methuen & Co., 1936. * (with Gwenda David) ''Bread and wine'' by
Ignazio Silone Secondino Tranquilli (1 May 1900 – 22 August 1978), known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone (, ), was an Italian political leader, novelist, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-fascist novels. He was no ...
. London: Methuen & Co., 1936. * (with Gwenda David) ''Offenbach and the Paris of his time'' by
Siegfried Kracauer Siegfried Kracauer (; ; February 8, 1889 – November 26, 1966) was a German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist. He has sometimes been associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He is notable for a ...
. London: Constable, 1937. * ''The Triumph of Barabbas'' by Giovanni Giglio. London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. * (with
Franz Borkenau Franz Borkenau (December 15, 1900 – May 22, 1957) was an Austrian writer. Borkenau was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a civil servant. As a university student in Leipzig, his main interests were Marxism and psychoanalysis. Borkenau is kno ...
) ''I helped to build an army. Civil War memoirs of a Spanish staff officer'' by José Martín Blázquez. Translated from the Spanish. With an introduction by Borkenau. London: Secker & Warburg, 1939. * (with Gwenda David) ''The school for dictators'' by Ignazio Silone. Translated from the Italian. London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. * (with Gwenda David) ''Hitler and I''. Translated from the French ''Hitler et moi''. London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. * (with Gwenda David) ''Birl. The story of a cat'' by
Alexander Moritz Frey Alexander Moritz Frey (1881–1957) was a German author known for his fantasy books. He was also known for his satirical columns in the press. World War I Frey, a pacifist, served as a medic in the same regiment as Adolf Hitler during World War ...
. London: Jonathan Cape, 1947. * ''The fiancée'' by Alberto Vigevani. Translated from the Italian. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948. * ''The house by the medlar tree'' by
Giovanni Verga Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca (; 2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist ('' verista'') writer, best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily, especially the short story and later play ''Cavalleria ...
. Translated from the Italian ''I Malavoglia''. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1950. * ''A hero of our time: a novel'' by
Vasco Pratolini Vasco Pratolini (19 October 1913 – 12 January 1991) was an Italian writer of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Biography Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the l ...
. Translated from the Italian ''Un eroe del nostro tempo''. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951. * (with David Porter) ''Russian purge and the extraction of confession'' by F. Beck (pseud.) and W. Godin (pseud.). Translated from the German. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1951. * ''Secret Tibet'' by Fosco Maraini. Translated from the Italian ''Segreto Tibet''. London: Hutchinson, 1952. * ''Heaven pays no dividends'' by Richard Kaufmann. Translated from the German ''Der Himmel zahlt keine Zinsen''. London: Jarrolds, 1952. * (with James Strachey) ''The origins of psycho-analysis. Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, drafts and notes: 1887–1902'' by
Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...
. Translated from the German ''Aus den Anfängen der Psychoanalyse. Briefe an Wilhelm Fliess''. London: Imago Publishing Co., 1954. * ''Final contributions to the problems and methods of psycho-analysis'' by
Sándor Ferenczi Sándor Ferenczi (7 July 1873 – 22 May 1933) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst, a key theorist of the psychoanalytic school and a close associate of Sigmund Freud. Biography Born Sándor Fränkel to Baruch Fränkel and Rosa Eibenschütz, bo ...
. Translated from the German. London: Hogarth Press, 1955. * ''The state of France: a study of contemporary France'' by
Herbert Lüthy Herbert Lüthy (1918-2002) was a Swiss historian and journalist. His book ''France Against Herself'', published in the mid-1950s, criticized French traditionalism. Life Born in Basel, Herbert Lüthy attended school in Glarus and St. Gallen. He t ...
. Translated from the German ''Frankreichs Uhren gehen anders''. London: Secker & Warburg, 1955. * ''The bound man, and other stories'' by
Ilse Aichinger Ilse Aichinger (1 November 1921 – 11 November 2016) was an Austrian writer known for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.
. London: Secker & Warburg, 1955. * ''Tune for an elephant'' by
Elio Vittorini Elio Vittorini (; 23 July 1908 – 12 February 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work is the anti-fascist novel '' Co ...
. Translated from the Italian ''Il Sempione strizza l'occhio al Frejus'' .London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1955. * (with Oliver Coburn) ''Ambush'' by Jean Hougron. Translated from the French ''Rage blanche''. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1956. * ''My secret diary of the Dreyfus case, 1894–1899'' by
Maurice Paléologue Maurice Paléologue (13 January 1859 – 23 November 1944) was a French diplomat, historian, and essayist. As the French ambassador to Russia (1914-1917), he supported the Russian mobilization against Germany that led to World War I and likewise p ...
. Translated from the French. London : Secker & Warburg, 1957. * ''Meeting with Japan'' by Fosco Maraini. Translated from the Italian ''Ora Giapponesi''. New York: The Viking Press, 1959. * '' Ferdydurke'' by
Witold Gombrowicz Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937 he published his ...
. London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1961. * (with Vivian Milroy) ''With my dogs in Russia'' by Hildegard Plievier. London: Hammond, Hammond & Co., 1961. * ''The fight against cancer'' by Charles Oberling. London: A. Deutsch, 1961. * ''The fox and the camelias'' by
Ignazio Silone Secondino Tranquilli (1 May 1900 – 22 August 1978), known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone (, ), was an Italian political leader, novelist, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-fascist novels. He was no ...
. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. * ''The realm of the Great Goddess. The story of the megalith builders'' by Sybille von Cles-Reden. London: Thames & Hudson, 1962. * ''Hekura: the diving girls' island'' by Fosco Maraini. London: H. Hamilton, 1962. * ''I was Cicero'' by
Elyesa Bazna Elyesa Bazna (), sometimes known as Ilyaz and Iliaz Bazna (; 28 July 1904  – 21 December 1970), was a secret agent for Nazi Germany during World War II, operating under the code name Cicero. Born in Pristina, Bazna attended a military ...
. London: A. Deutsch, 1962. * ''The shady miracle'' by
Ernst Glaeser Ernst Glaeser (29 July 1902 – 8 February 1963) was a German writer, known for his best-selling pacifist novel ''Jahrgang 1902'' ("Born in 1902"). He was associated with the political left, and went into exile in Switzerland at the start of the N ...
. London: Secker & Warburg, 1963. * ''Thou shalt not kill'' by Igor Šentjurc. Translated from the German ''Der unstillbare Strom''. London, Dublin: Constable, 1963. * ''Psycho-analysis and faith: the letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister'' by
Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...
. London: Hogarth Press, 1963. * (with Denise Folliot) ''The better song'' by Luc Estang. Translated from the French ''Le Bonheur et le salut''. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. * ''The torrents of war'' by Igor Šentjurc. Translated from the German. London: Transworld Publishers, 1965. * ''Mannerism. The crisis of the Renaissance and the origin of modern art'' by
Arnold Hauser *Arnold Hauser (art historian) Arnold Hauser (8 May 1892 in Timișoara – 28 January 1978 in Budapest) was a Hungarian-German art historian and sociologist who was perhaps the leading Marxist in the field. He wrote on the influence of change in ...
. 2 vols. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965. * '' La Vita agra; or, It's a hard life'' by
Luciano Bianciardi Luciano Bianciardi (; 14 December 1922 – 14 November 1971) was an Italian journalist, translator and writer of short stories and novels. He contributed significantly to the cultural ferment in post-war Italy, working actively with various pub ...
. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965. * ''Simplicius 45: a novel'' by Heinz Küpper. Translated from the German. London: Secker & Warburg, 1966. * ''Remembrance Day: thirteen attempts in prose to adopt an attitude of respect'' by Gerhard Zwerenz. London: Hutchinson, 1966. * ''The end of the Jewish people?'' by
Georges Friedmann Georges Philippe Friedmann (; 13 May 1902 – 15 November 1977), was a French sociologist and philosopher, known for his influential work on the effects of industrial labor on individuals and his criticisms of the uncontrolled embrace of techn ...
. Translated from the French ''Fin du peuple juif?''. London: Hutchinson, 1967. * ''Cosmos'' by
Witold Gombrowicz Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937 he published his ...
. Translated from the French and German translations. London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1967. * ''Society without the father: a contribution to social psychology'' by Alexander Mitscherlich. London: Tavistock Publications, 1969. * ''Equilibrium'' by
Tonino Guerra Antonio "Tonino" Guerra (16 March 1920 – 21 March 2012) was an Italian poet, writer and screenwriter who collaborated with some of the most prominent film directors in the world. Life and work Guerra was born in Santarcangelo di Romagna. Acco ...
. Translated from the Italian. London: Chatto & Windus, 1969. * (with others) ''Dietrich Bonhoeffer: theologian, Christian, contemporary'' by
Eberhard Bethge Eberhard Bethge (August 28, 1909 – March 18, 2000) was a German theologian and pastor, best known for being the close friend and biographer of the theologian and anti-Nazi Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Early life Bethge was born in Rosenau (Branden ...
. London: Collins, 1970. * ''The end of an alliance: Rome's defection from the Axis in 1943'' by Friedrich-Karl von Plehwe. Translated from the German ''Schicksalsstunden in Rom''. London: Oxford University Press, 1971. * ''Fragments grave and gay'' by Karl Barth. London: William Collins Sons & Co., 1971. * ''Infallible? an enquiry'' by
Hans Küng Hans Küng (; 19 March 1928 – 6 April 2021) was a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author. From 1995 he was president of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Stiftung Weltethos). Küng was ordained a priest in 1954, joined the faculty o ...
. Translated from the German ''Unfehlbar? Eine Anfrage''. London: Collins, 1971. * ''The hollow legions: Mullsolini's blunder in Greece, 1940–1941'' by
Mario Cervi Mario Cervi (25 March 1921 – 17 November 2015) was an Italian essayist and journalist. Born in Crema, Lombardy, Cervi started his career as a journalist in 1945 collaborating with the newspaper ''Corriere della Sera'' as a foreign reporter. In ...
. London: Chatto & Windus, 1972. * ''Marxism and history'' by
Helmut Fischer Helmut Fischer (15 November 1926 – 14 June 1997) was a popular, award-winning German actor. Life Helmut Fischer was the son of a businessman and a tailor who grew up in the Munich district of ''Neuhausen'' at '' Donnersbergerstraße 50a'', ...
. Translated from the German ''Marxismus und Geschichte''. London: Allen Lane, 1973. * ''Solzhenitsyn'' by Giovanni Grazzini. Translated from the Italian. London: Joseph, 1973. * ''Commemorations'' by
Hans Herlin Hans Herlin (1925–December 20, 1994) was a German novelist. Born in Stadtlohn, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), he was drafted into the Luftwaffe in World War II and trained as a pilot. In 1944 he fled to Switzerland and lived in France from 19 ...
. Translated from the German 'Freunde''. London: Heinemann, 1975. * ''Children of the SS'' by Clarissa Henry and Marc Hillel. Translated from the French ''Au nom de la race''. London: Hutchinson, 1976. * ''The nuclear state'' by
Robert Jungk Robert Jungk (; born ''Robert Baum'', also known as ''Robert Baum-Jungk''; 11 May 1913 – 14 July 1994) was an Austrian writer, journalist, historian and peace campaigner who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons. Life Jungk was bor ...
. Translated from the German ''Atomstaat''. London: J. Calder, 1979. * ''The biology of peace and war: men, animals and aggression'' by
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (; 15 June 1928 – 2 June 2018) was an Austrian ethologist in the field of human ethology. In authoring the book which bears that title, he applied ethology to humans by studying them in a perspective more common to vo ...
. London: Thames and Hudson, 1979. * ''Cocaine'' by Pitigrilli. Feltham: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1982. * ''Franz Kafka of Prague'' by Jǐrí Gruša. Translated from the German ''Franz Kafka aus Prag''. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983. * ''Nomenklatura: anatomy of the Soviet ruling class'' by
Michael Voslenski Mikhail Sergeyevich Voslensky (russian: Михаил Серге́евич Восленский) (December 6, 1920, Berdyansk, Ukrainian SSR – February 8, 1997, Bonn, Germany) was a Soviet writer, scientist, diplomat and dissident who authored t ...
. London: The Bodley Head, 1984. * ''Leonardo's Judas'' by
Leo Perutz Leopold Perutz (2 November 1882, Prague – 25 August 1957, Bad Ischl) was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. He was born in Prague (now capital of the Czech Republic) and was thus a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lived in Vien ...
. Translated from the German ''Der Judas des Leonardo''. London: Collins Harvill, 1989. * ''Saint Peter's snow'' by Leo Perutz. Translated from the German ''Sankt Petri-Schnee''. London: Collins-Harvill, 1990. * ''By night under the stone bridge'' by Leo Perutz. Translated from the German ''Nachts unter der steinemen Brücke''. London: Collins Harvill, 1989. * ''Psychoanalysis of the sexual functions of women'' by
Helen Deutsch Helen Deutsch (21 March 1906 – 15 March 1992) was an American screenwriter, journalist, and songwriter. Biography Deutsch was born in New York City and graduated from Barnard College. She began her career by managing the Provincetown Player ...
. London: Karnac, 1990. * ' by
Leo Perutz Leopold Perutz (2 November 1882, Prague – 25 August 1957, Bad Ischl) was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. He was born in Prague (now capital of the Czech Republic) and was thus a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lived in Vien ...
. Translated from the German ''Meister des jüngsten Tages''. London: Harvill, 1994.


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