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Author
Series
Spectrum book. Twentieth century views ; S-TC-36
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; 47
Language
English
Description
The Nobel Prize—winning author's masterful novella of eros and obsession, presented alongside other short works of lyrical beauty and psychological depth.
In Thomas Mann's immortal novella A Death in Venice, renowned author Gustave Aschenbach faces both middle age and a severe case of writer's block. He resolves to go on holiday in search of inspiration, only to find himself awestruck by the classical beauty of a fourteen-year-old boy. Submitting...
9) Thomas Mann
Author
Series
ND paper ; 101
Publisher
New Directions Paperbook
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides both his artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from this father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When World War I broke out the author of ''Buddenbrooks'' was almost 40 but not yet in the public view one of the giants of European literature. In his native Germany it was thought that Gerhart Hauptmann and probably a few of his elder contemporaries were towering above him. But he already had a reputation as one of the most interesting writers in Europe and as a moralist from whom his many readers expected a message in a time of great trials. His...
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1931.
Language
English
Description
Mario and the Magician is one of Mann's most political stories. Mann openly criticizes fascism, a choice which later became one of the grounds for his exile to Switzerland following Hitler's rise to power. The sorcerer, Cipolla, is analogous to the fascist dictators of the era with their fiery speeches and rhetoric. The story was especially timely, considering the tensions in Europe when it was written. Stalin had just seized power in Russia, Mussolini...
Author
Publisher
Liveright, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann's best stories-including his masterpiece, in its first English translation in nearly a century. 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...
Author
Series
Sun and Moon classics ; 109
Publisher
Sun & Moon Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
This volume includes wonderful examples of the long tradition of storytelling, and even more revelatory in regard to Mann's themes and styles. (This collection) "provides an extraordinary insight into the changes that were taking place on the European literary scene in the 1890s, as the decadence and fatigue of the fin-de-siecle was giving way to an energetic post-Nietzschean modernism."