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Thomas Mann
New Selected Stories
Buch von Thomas Mann
Sprache: Englisch

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A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer-"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius.

The headliner of this volume, "Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow" (in its first new translation since 1936)-a subtle masterpiece that reveals the profound emotional significance of everyday life-is Mann's tender but sharp-eyed portrait of the "Bigs" and "Littles" of the bourgeois Cornelius family as they adjust to straitened circumstances in hyperinflationary Weimar Germany. Here, too, is a free-standing excerpt from Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks-a sensation when it was first published. "Death in Venice" (also included in this volume) is Mann's most famous story, but less well known is that he intended it to be a diptych with another, comic story-included here as "Confessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull." "Louisey"-a tale of sexual humiliation that gives a first glimpse of Mann's lifelong ambivalence about the power of art-rounds out this revelatory, transformative collection.
A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer-"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius.

The headliner of this volume, "Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow" (in its first new translation since 1936)-a subtle masterpiece that reveals the profound emotional significance of everyday life-is Mann's tender but sharp-eyed portrait of the "Bigs" and "Littles" of the bourgeois Cornelius family as they adjust to straitened circumstances in hyperinflationary Weimar Germany. Here, too, is a free-standing excerpt from Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks-a sensation when it was first published. "Death in Venice" (also included in this volume) is Mann's most famous story, but less well known is that he intended it to be a diptych with another, comic story-included here as "Confessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull." "Louisey"-a tale of sexual humiliation that gives a first glimpse of Mann's lifelong ambivalence about the power of art-rounds out this revelatory, transformative collection.
Über den Autor
Thomas Mann, a member of a Hanseatic family with deep roots in Lübeck, was arguably Germany's most famous twentieth-century writer. In 1929, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 272
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781631498480
ISBN-10: 1631498487
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Mann, Thomas
Übersetzung: Searls, Damion
Hersteller: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Maße: 234 x 157 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Thomas Mann
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.2023
Gewicht: 0,51 kg
preigu-id: 121961909
Über den Autor
Thomas Mann, a member of a Hanseatic family with deep roots in Lübeck, was arguably Germany's most famous twentieth-century writer. In 1929, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 272
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781631498480
ISBN-10: 1631498487
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Mann, Thomas
Übersetzung: Searls, Damion
Hersteller: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Maße: 234 x 157 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Thomas Mann
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.2023
Gewicht: 0,51 kg
preigu-id: 121961909
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