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Thomas Mann - New Selected Stories
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List price R548
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You Save R103 (19%)
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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.
General
Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2024 |
Authors: |
Thomas Mann
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Translators: |
Damion Searls
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-324-09452-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-324-09452-4 |
Barcode: |
9781324094524 |
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