Thomas Mann

"Byloe Iakova" - pervaja chast monumentalnogo tsikla "Iosif i ego bratja", romany iz kotorogo Tomas Mann schital luchshimi svoimi proizvedenijami. V khudozhestvennoj interpretatsii vetkhozavetnogo sjuzheta on stavit vechnye voprosy o zhizni, proiskhozhdenii cheloveka i poiske Boga, tem samym stiraja granitsy mezhdu proshlym i nastojaschim. Epopeju otkryvaet podrobnejshij rasskaz o neprostoj sudbe Iakova. Ukrav pervorodstvo i ottsovskoe blagoslovenie u brata Isava, on stanovitsja izgnannikom v rodnykh krajakh i nakhodit prijut v dome svoego djadi Lavana. Zdes Iakovu predstoit s chestju projti ugotovlennye ispytanija, poznav kak radosti, tak i goresti: vstretit ljubov svoej zhizni Rakhil, sluzhit za nee dolgikh sem let, po vole sluchaja vzjat v zheny ee sestru, rodit dvenadtsat synovej, odnomu iz kotorykh - Iosifu - suzhdeno budet zanjat osoboe mesto v biblejskoj istorii...

Una reinterpretaci n del gran mito inmortalizado por Goethe. Un reflejo de la sociedad moderna. La ltima gran novela de Thomas Mann es una reinterpretaci n del mito de Fausto. Su protagonista, Adrian Leverk hn, es un compositor brillante, as como un hombre solitario y exigente. Su obra, una m sica nueva, rompedora, radical y de ritmo acelerado, parece estar al filo de lo imposible. A pesar del xito, Adrian aspira a m s hasta el punto de vender su alma y renunciar a cualquier posibilidad de amar. Doctor Faustus, una de las obras m s profundas del autor, reflexiona acerca de la figura del genio, al mismo tiempo que propone el mito de fausto como un reflejo de la realidad de su tiempo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The new translation, by the masterly John E. Woods, of one of Thomas Mann's most famous and important novels: his modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which twentieth-century Germany sells its soul to the devil. Mann's protagonist, Adrian Leverk hn, is one of the most significant characters in the literature of our era, for it is in him that Mann centers the tragedy of Germany's seduction by evil. This modern Faust is a great artist: Leverk hn is a musical genius who trades body and soul in a Mephistophelian bargain for twenty-four years of triumph as the world's greatest composer. He is isolated, brilliant, a radical experimenter who both plays and thinks at the very edges of artistic possibility. The story of his life becomes an apocalyptic narrative of his country's moral collapse as it surges into the catastrophe of World War II. No simple symbolic figure, Leverk hn is himself, almost paradoxically, a morally driven man in the vortex of an entire culture's self-destruction. Through the wonderful--and terrible--story of Leverk hn's life and death, Mann not only gave us his most profound writing on the very nature and heart of all art--how it is created and how it impinges on every aspect of our experience: artistic, religious, political, sexual, psychological--but also forced his countrymen (the novel was first published fifty years ago, in 1947) to come face-to-face with how they had fallen prey to all that was most lethal in their heritage.

Genudgivelse i luksus-hardback. Romanen om det mægtige handelshus, ejet af familien Buddenbrook, der første gang udkom i 1901. Den fortæller om en borgerskabets verden, der er blevet gammel, men endnu udfolder en sidste sælsom skønhed og charme, holdt sammen af årelange traditioner. Historien er en slags nekrolog - den viser ikke borgerskabets opkomst, men begynder på højdepunktet og viser forfaldet, fra biedermeiertiden til gründertiden, og den skildrer dette forfald, så det fremstår mere levende end de fleste beretninger om succes og fremgang.

El propio Thomas Mann advierte que esta novela trata sobre «la pasi n como desequilibrio y degradaci n . Gustav Aschenbach, «arroyo de cenizas en alem n, es un escritor maduro que goza de reconocimiento. Llega a Venecia en busca de inspiraci n, pero tambi n de llenar sus d as con reflexiones est ticas en un entorno id lico. En el hotel coincide con Tadzio, un joven de polaco que se encuentra de vacaciones con su familia. El muchacho se convierte en objeto de deseo y adoraci n; un amor ideal e imposible basado en la contemplaci n est tica y que llevar a Aschenbach a renunciar a todo, incluso a s mismo. «Hay, entre los resquicios de esa historia, un abismo que ella deja entrever y que inmediatamente identificamos en nosotros mismos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain presents a panorama of European society in the first two decades of the 20th century and depicts the philosophical and metaphysical dilemmas facing people in the modern age. In the years leading up to the First World War, the fundamental elements of human nature were thrown into sharp relief by the political tensions that resulted in the ultimate metaphor for the innate destructiveness of humankind: the War itself. If such a war is the true expression of human tendencies, what hope is there for the future? Through the figure of the main character of the novel, Thomas Mann explores the alternative philosophies of life available to human beings in the modern age, and invites the reader to undertake a personal odyssey of discovery, with a view to adopting a positive approach in an era that seems to offer no clear-cut answers. This book is a comprehensive commentary on Thomas Mann's seminal novel, one of the key literary artefacts of the 20th century. The author has taken upon himself the task of explaining all the references and allusions contained in the novel, and of providing readers who know little or no German with enough explanatory comments to enable them to understand the novel and extract the maximum reading pleasure from it.

In der Lebensgeschichte Adrian Leverkühns - der fiktiven Romanbiographie eines Komponisten, der sich dem Teufel verschreibt - faßt Thomas Mann alle Entwicklungsstufen der alten Faust-Sage zusammen und verknüpft sie mit der "drohenden Problematik unserer Zeit, dem katastrophalen Rückfall des hoch- und überentwickelten Geistes in archaische Primitivität". Der zeitliche Rahmen umgrenzt die Jahre von 1884 bis 1945 - seine eigene Epoche. Er selbst nannte den >Doktor Faustus< "ein Lebensbuch von fast sträflicher Schonungslosigkeit, eine sonderbare Art von übertragener Autobiographie, ein Werk, das mich mehr gekostet und tiefer an mir gezehrt hat, als jedes frühere". Die überstarke Anteilnahme des Autors bei der Niederschrift bleibt - trotz Einführung eines wohl über den Dingen stehenden Erzählers - Kapitel um Kapitel spürbar.

"Volshebnaja gora" - tuberkuleznyj sanatorij v Shvejtsarskikh Alpakh. Ego obitateli vynuzhdeny nakhoditsja zdes godami, obschajas s vneshnim mirom lish posredstvom redkikh pisem i telegramm. Zdes vremja techet nezametno, zhizn i smert utrachivajut smysl, a melchajshie njuansy chelovecheskikh otnoshenij, naprotiv, priobretajut boleznennuju ostrotu i znachimost. Ljubov, druzhba, vrazhda, revnost dlja obitatelej sanatorija slovno otmecheny tenju nebytija... Eta istorija imeet mnozhestvo vozmozhnykh prochtenij - moschnejshee filosofskoe issledovanie zhiznennykh osnov v kanun Pervoj mirovoj vojny, tonkij psikhologicheskij analiz raznykh tipov chelovecheskogo kharaktera i otnoshenij, pogruzhenie v istoriju kultury, religii i v istoriju voobsche.

Konstnärens förhållande till det borgerliga livet är ett tema som Thomas Mann arbetade med under hela sitt långa författarskap, även i de fyra långa noveller som nu kommer i ny svensk översättning. "Tonio Kröger" om en ung författare vars far var köpman i en nordtysk stad är den tydligast självbiografiska av de fyra. Den lätt burleska "Tristan" om skönhet, kärlek och död utspelas på ett sanatorium; novellen förebådar romanen "Bergtagen". I "Döden i Venedig" attraheras en framgångsrik äldre författare av en ung pojke samtidigt som staden drabbas av kolera. Novellen "Mario och trollkarlen" från 1930 förebådar fascismen i Italien. Samtidigt är alla berättelserna psykologiskt realistiska skildringar av människorna och tiden, skrivna av en mästare.

Discover Thomas Mann's comic novel of deception and misplaced confidence - back in print for the first time in over twenty years. Waiter by day, man about Paris by night; the young and good looking Felix Krull has created for himself a personality to charm and deceive the world of wealth. When the Marquis de Venosta makes him a proposal that he can't refuse, the young Felix finds himself on the pathway that will elevate him into the world of riches.'The most astonishing work that Mann ever wrote and also one of the most perfect' Edwin Muir

Read Thomas Mann's meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination. Mann's novel, written some 150 years after Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, follows Lotte Kestner, Goethe's real-life heroine, as she makes a pilgrimage to Weimar to meet the author who courted her forty years before. To her surprise, Lotte is greeted on her arrival as a celebrity and immediately taken up into Goethe's set. Time and place are brilliantly evoked in Mann's novel, but its genius lies in his masterful portrayal of Goethe himself, and of the astonishing influence he exerted on his contemporaries.'A masterpiece' Stefan Zweig