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Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories

English

By (author): Thomas Mann

Translated by: Damion Searls

A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writerthe 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 Manns 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 lifeis Manns 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 Manns first novel, Buddenbrooksa sensation when it was first published. Death in Venice (also included in this volume) is Manns most famous story, but less well known is that he intended it to be a diptych with another, comic storyincluded here as Confessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull. Louiseya tale of sexual humiliation that gives a first glimpse of Manns lifelong ambivalence about the power of artrounds out this revelatory, transformative collection. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 516g
  • Dimensions: 160 x 239mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Apr 2023
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781631498480

About Thomas Mann

Damion Searls is a prize-winning translator of fifty books from German French Norwegian and Dutch. Liveright published his translation of Rainer Maria Rilkes Letters to a Young Poet in 2020. Thomas Mann a member of a Hanseatic family with deep roots in Lübeck was arguably Germanys most famous twentieth-century writer. In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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