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- ↑ For a discussion of translations of Bierce, see Grenander, M. E., "Au cœur de la vie: a French translation of Ambrose Bierce", Boston University Studies in English, v. 1, n. 4 (Winter 1955-1956), pp. 237-241.
- ↑ For example, Jacques Sternberg's influential preface to Au Coeur de la Vie (Paris: Julliard, 1963), pp. i-xii; and Richard Schuberth's essay “Ambrose Bierce und das Worterbuch des Teufels” [“Ambrose Bierce and The Devil's Dictionary”] in Das neue Worterbuch des Teufels : Ein aphoristisches Lexikon mit zwei Essays zu Ambrose Bierce und Karl Kraus sowie aphoristischen Reflexionen zum Aphorismus selbst [The new Devil's Dictionary: An aphoristic lexicon with two essays about Ambrose Bierce and Karl Kraus and aphoristic reflections about the aphorism itself] (Vienna: Klever Verlag, 2014), pp. 167-174.