Thomas Mann : new selected stories / Thomas Mann ; translated and with an introduction by Damion Searls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955, author.

Contributor:

Searls, Damion, translator, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Short stories--Selections--English.

Mann, Thomas.

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955--Translations into English.

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.

German literature--Translations into English.

German literature.

Genre:

Short stories.

Translations.

Physical Description:

xx, 252 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

New selected stories

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2023]

Language Note:

In English, translated from German.

Summary:

"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 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.

Contents:

Chaotic world and childhood sorrow

A day in the life of Hanno Buddenbrook

Louisey

Death in Venice

Confessions of a con artist, by Felix Krull

part one: My childhood.

Machine generated contents note: Chaotic World And Childhood Sorrow

A Day In The Life Of Hanno Buddenbrook

Death In Venice

Confessions Of A Con Artist, By Felix Krull-Part One My Childhood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.

ISBN:

9781631498480

1631498487

OCLC:

1354231129