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21. Tristan ($1 Deutsch Edition) (German Edition) by Thomas Mann | |
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(2009-10-01)
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22. Royal Highness: A Novel of German Court Life, by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(2009-04-27)
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My first Thomas Mann-- seems like a good place to start.
Mann's fairy tale
Not for the Mann novice, but a great book. Without giving away any of the surprises, this book is about a rather idealistic female's impact on a small village.Mann poses thoughtful questions about the usefulness of artistic values in a bourgeois society while revealing the inner nuances of his characters as he does so artfully, as in "Buddenbrooks" and "Felix Krull." To top it all off, this Mann novel is probably his most humorous.For those not knowledgable on Mann, he is not readily identifyable for the humour in his works, making this one rather noteworthy. ... Read more |
23. The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Todd Kontje | |
Paperback: 152
Pages
(2010-11-30)
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24. The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(1992-01-08)
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A high point in Western literature
A small, beautifully carved gem by German genius Mann The style is elegant, stylishly mocking the medieval archaic German which is well-rendered into a stylized antique English by the talented Mrs. Lowe.The story is as gripping as any soap opera but the artistry with which it is told is exquisite. As usual, Mann blends his story-telling ability with his genius as a writer of ideas. I can hardly think of another writer who comes close to being able to combine a good yarn with incredible style and deep concepts (maybe Melville and Nabokov, perhaps.) This is a good preparatory book for "Joseph and his Brothers"--a monumental book about the biblical story of Joseph in Egypt.
Modern Mythology takes a look at Redemption... On a deeper level, "The Holy Sinner" comes forth as a contemporary myth.There is a definite straining in this book for a sense of redemption, forgiveness, and the search for meaning.Ripe with symbolism, and exploring a kind of "less-violent" Oedipal storyline, you can feel Mann's struggle over the contemporary situation in Germany in the late 40s and early 50s. Though not what I would call a "sequel" to "Doctor Faustus," in the allegorical way you can catch a glimpse of Germany in the pages of "The Holy Sinner," I would nevertheless point out that the theme of "penance and change instead of murder and vengeance" seems very contemporarily bound. However, the story itself hinges on one coincidence too many, and there are passages that nearly grind to a halt in speed and direction.I did come away from the novel with a new respect for Thomas Mann, but this was not an easy read, and, at times, not even enjoyable.The alliteration and sometimes near-poetry of the writing was in some passages immaculate, and then a few pages later almost clumsy and awkward. I would consider this book one meant more for study than outright enjoyment, though I did enjoy it more often than I didn't.It was work to finish it, however, and more work to digest and attempt to understand it.If you are in the mood for something serious and allegorical, pick up "The Holy Sinner."But if you're looking for something lighter or entertaining, I'd suggest you pass this one by.
A minor work by a major writer In "The Holy Sinner" Mann retells a medieval legend about the life of Pope Gregory in plush,tongue-in-cheek, bejewelled language reminiscent of knightly chronicles. The translator, H. T. Lowe-Porter, has done an excellent job in translating the romance-like pastiches spoken or written by the different characters --in particular if you have a smattering of French, Latin, Spanish, Catalan, Middle English or Provenzal, you will enjoy these light-hearted and occasional romps. However, as is usual with Mann, the glittering surface-story is not the most interesting one. This book is also a Christianized version of Sophocles' Oedipus tragedies and an optimistic commentary on the possibilties of European reconstruction in the aftermath of the second world war. Unfortunately I feel the three levels do not resonate with the power you find in his masterpieces ("The Magical Mountain", "Doctor Faustus"). Russell Berman, who wrote the introduction to the book does not agree: "In the Holy Sinner, Thomas Mann unfolds an ornate depiction of the Middle Ages, replete with courtly love and jousting knights, illiterate peasants and papal magnificence. This fascinating setting, which the author embellishes with all his linguistic and confabulatory powers, is equally a backdrop for weighty matters of the mind: religious questions of sin and grace, psychoanalytical inquiries into incestous desire, political investigations into the distribution of power." If you have never read Thomas Mann, I would recommend you start with his novelette "Death in Venice&quo! t; and then go on to "Doctor Faustus" and "The Magic Mountain". If you have read his masterpieces be warned: this is, in Graham Greene's nomenclature, more of an entertainment than a novel.
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25. Tobias Mindernickel by Thomas Mann | |
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(2009-08-17)
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26. Thomas Mann: A Biography by Ronald Hayman | |
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(1997-02-20)
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Great Bio of GREAT Writer!!
exquisite bio by an exquisite writer |
27. Stories of Three Decades by Thomas Mann | |
Hardcover: 567
Pages
(1936)
Asin: B000XXDVKU Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
28. The Tables of the Law by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 120
Pages
(2010-06-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description "Brilliant . . . a little masterpiece."—Chicago Sun-Times Book Week "Can rank with the best of Mann's writing."—The Boston Globe "Magnificent . . . one of the greatest bits of writing which one of the world's greatest writers has ever given us."—Chicago Herald-American "Brilliant . . . one of those splendid novelettes which in this reviewer's opinion represent the very essence of Mr. Mann's literary art."—Saturday Review of Literature The Tables of the Law recounts the early life of Moses, his preparations for leading his people out of Egypt, the exodus itself and the incidents at the oasis Kadesh, and the engraving of the stone tables of the law at Sinai. In Thomas Mann's ironic and telling style, this most dramatic and significant story in the Hebrew Bible takes on a new (and at times, witty) life and meaning. Like Joseph and His Brothers, it represents Mann's art at its best. He who dares to retell the story of the exodus must be bold, but to succeed he must be inspired as well. Here one would say Mann was inspired. Newly translated from the German by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann. Thomas Mann (1875–1955) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. His many works include Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Confessions of Felix Krull. Customer Reviews (2)
A solid addition to any literary fiction collection
Moses and monotheism |
29. A Companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) by Stephen D. Dowden | |
Paperback: 270
Pages
(2001-12-15)
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Outstanding Literary Criticism
A Post Novel Companion
A Companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain
Not a Cliff's Notes, a real climbing buddy for this mountain
Eleven essays by articulate scholars |
30. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann (Cambridge Companions to Literature) | |
Hardcover: 284
Pages
(2002-02-04)
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31. Tonio Kröger (German Edition) by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 72
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(2009-03-11)
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32. The last year of Thomas Mann;: A revealing memoir by his daughter by Erika Mann | |
Hardcover: 119
Pages
(1958)
Asin: B0007DN1GA Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
33. Thomas Mann Diaries 1918-1939 by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 480
Pages
(1984-02-01)
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34. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann | |
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(2009-08-12)
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35. El Elegido (Spanish Edition) by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2004-12)
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36. Joseph in Egypt (His Joseph and his brothers, III) by Thomas Mann | |
Hardcover: 664
Pages
(1944)
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37. Bluebeard's Chamber: Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann by Michael Maar | |
Hardcover: 284
Pages
(2003-10)
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Editorial Review Product Description Michael Maar mounts a devastating forensic challenge to this consensus: Mann was remarkably open about his sexual orientation, which he saw as no reason for guilt. But sexuality in Mann's work is inextricably bound up with an eruption of violence. Maar pursues this trail through Mann's writings and traces its origins back to Mann's second visit to Italy, during which the Devil appeared to him in Palestrina. Something happened to the twenty-one-year-old Thomas Mann in Naples that marked him for life with a burdensome sense of guilt...but what exactly was it? Customer Reviews (1)
In a dark alleyway in Naples in the late 1890s... |
38. Joseph the Provider by Thomas Mann | |
Hardcover: 427
Pages
(1945)
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39. Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art. A Biography by Hermann Kurzke | |
Hardcover: 752
Pages
(2002-08-12)
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Editorial Review Product Description Engrossing vignettes enable us to enter Mann's life and work from unique angles. We meet the difficult, even unsavory private man: hypochondriac and nervous, narcissistic and vainglorious, isolated and greedy for love, shy and often ungenerous. But we are also introduced to a man who lived an eventful life, was capable of great kindness, loved dogs, doted on his daughters, and listened to Jack Benny. We experience Mann's tragedy as the quintessential German forced by the rise of National Socialism first into inner exile and then into real exile in Switzerland, Princeton, and California. His letters from this time reveal the torment that exile represented for a writer whose work, indeed whose very self, was inextricably bound up with the German language. The book provides fresh and sometimes startling insights into both famous and little-known episodes in Mann's life and into his writing--the only realm in which he ever felt free. It shows how love, death, religion, and politics were not merely themes in Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and other works, but were woven into the fabric of his existence and preoccupied him unrelentingly. It also teases out what is known about what Mann considered his celibate homoeroticism and what others have labeled closeted homosexuality. In particular, we learn about his affection for the young man who inspired the character of Tadzio in Death in Venice. And, against the unfocused accusations of anti-Semitism that have been leveled at Mann, the book examines in human detail his relationships with Jewish writers, friends, and family members. This is the richest available portrait of Thomas Mann as man and writer--the place to start for anyone wanting to know anything about his life, work, or times. Customer Reviews (2)
Dissensio? If it is sophomoric to assume that an author's life is completely mirrored in his novels, than it is the greater fool's error to believe that there is such a thing as an objective biography -- compiled from some sort of secret correspondence, some sort of puzzle contained in the actions of author's life, which will englighten a literary work further. Kurzke respects a profound idea in his work: Mann wished to remembered by his fiction, and those letters which amplify his career. Frankly, Thomas Mann is a figure in world literature who respected the idea of leaving for posterity exactly what he wished to said about him. Apparently, this is insufficient to repeat. It seems better to do what Joseph Frank did with his five volume Dostoevsky biography (everyone applauds this biography) -- to pour over the notes and sketches of rough drafts, as well as his surly day-to-day complaints about neighbors and his hemorrhoids. Frank admonishes Anna Dostoevskaya for trying to etch out and destroy parts of the notebooks that she did not wish to be public. Mann obviously succeeded in protecting himself from vulture professors and writers who would years down the road be searching for material to publish to advance their curriculum vitae. As Settembrini might have said, a fixation on the concrete banal and prosaic facts about an author's life is an (intellectual) disease typical of the century just past. Kurzke's attitude and approach share nothing of this.
Still Waiting Herman Kurzke's Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art, A Biography, is a hoax, for it simply is not a biography. The book is instead nearly 600 pages of literacy criticism, and sophomoric literary criticism at that. Kurzke makes the classic undergraduate error of assuming that the artist's work perfectly mirrors his life and that the artist is his characters. Again and again Kurzke strives--and fails--to provide insight into the life of Mann merely by delving into Mann's writing. Consider this passage from page 73: "Thomas Mann's favorite flower was the Marshall Niel rose. He 'is' [Little Herr] Friedemann, the reading and violin-playing ascetic who has succeeded in chaining up the dogs in the cellar. The basic motif for his life and actions is fear of passion, fear that the carefully tended equilibrium of his life could tip over, fear of the return of what was repressed and the collapse of true construction of art. The psycholoanalyst Krowkowski in The Magic Mountain knows with pleasure how to make it perfectly clear."So we learn what Mann's favorite flower was, but nothing more, and the unmistakable tone of undergraduate assertion here makes us shudder. The absolute dearth of information about Mann is inexcusable, and those who are familiar with Mann's works, as certainly all who would buy this book must be, do not need someone of Kurzke's limited skills to tell us what those works are about. One need only read "Death in Venice," for example, to know it is about suppressed homosexuality, and one need only read Mann's 1918-1939 published diaries (1982) to know that Mann is addressing his own suppressed (or not) sexual inclinations. In sum, this book is a waste of time, .... ... Read more |
40. Thomas Mann's World: Empire, Race, and the Jewish Question by Todd Kontje | |
Hardcover: 280
Pages
(2010-12-28)
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