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Collected Stories
Thomas Mann
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Description for Collected Stories
Hardcover. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 890 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 132 x 46. Weight in Grams: 928.
Famous for his novels, Thomas Mann is more accessible through the shorter fictions which span his entire career. The most famous of these stories is one of the earliest. Death in Venice was made into the celebrated Visconti film, but all his mature preoccupations are present in this story: the need for a sense of meaning in existence, the relationship between life and art, the central role of sexual energy and the strange forms it can take, the place of death and disease, the importance of work, the individual's complex relations with his society and the dominant culture. These themes ... Read more
Famous for his novels, Thomas Mann is more accessible through the shorter fictions which span his entire career. The most famous of these stories is one of the earliest. Death in Venice was made into the celebrated Visconti film, but all his mature preoccupations are present in this story: the need for a sense of meaning in existence, the relationship between life and art, the central role of sexual energy and the strange forms it can take, the place of death and disease, the importance of work, the individual's complex relations with his society and the dominant culture. These themes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
890
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857151961
SKU
V9781857151961
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About Thomas Mann
Helen Lowe Porter has translated Thomas Mann's entire oeuvre into English. Daniel Johnson, formerly Literary Editor of the Times, is now as Associate Editor of the Daily Telegraph. He was a Correspondent in Germany in the 1980s and is currently engaged on an intellectual history of Germany.
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