New selected stories
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Contributors
Searls, Damion translator.
Published
New York, NY : Liveright, [2023].
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York, NY : Liveright, [2023].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xx, 252 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mann, T., & Searls, D. (2023). New selected stories (First edition.). Liveright.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 and Damion Searls. 2023. New Selected Stories. Liveright.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 and Damion Searls. New Selected Stories Liveright, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mann, Thomas, and Damion Searls. New Selected Stories First edition., Liveright, 2023.
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