Overview
The headliner of this volume, āChaotic World and Childhood Sorrowā (in its first new translation since 1936)āa subtle masterpiece that reveals the profound emotional significance of everyday lifeāis Mannās tender but sharp-eyed portrait of the āBigsā and āLittlesā of the bourgeois Cornelius family as they adjust to straitened circumstances in hyperinflationary Weimar Germany. Here, too, is a free-standing excerpt from Mannās first novel, Buddenbrooksāa sensation when it was first published. āDeath in Veniceā (also included in this volume) is Mannās most famous story, but less well known is that he intended it to be a diptych with another, comic storyāincluded here as āConfessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull.ā āLouiseyāāa tale of sexual humiliation that gives a first glimpse of Mannās lifelong ambivalence about the power of artārounds out this revelatory, transformative collection.
This book title, Thomas Mann (New Selected Stories), ISBN: 9781324094524, by Thomas Mann, Damion Searls, published by Liveright (April 9, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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