Elective Affinities
In collaboration with Louise Bogan she translated Ernst Jünger's "The Glass Bees" (1961), Goethe's "Elective Affinities" (1963) and "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and "Novella" (both in 1 vol., 1971). One reviewer of "Elective Affinities" found the beginning "promising": by "tak[ing] liberties with the original text, .. [they] thereby win the modern reader's interest", but considered it "colorless, rather than timeless" overall. "The New York Times" reviewer wrote that the work on "Elective Affinities" was an "excellent translation--the only readable one I have come across", while "The Washington Post" reviewer wrote that their translation was his favorite.