Thomas Mann

'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!" This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, after which he turned to larger-scale projects. The acknowledged classic among the early shorter fiction is the novella Death in Venice, in which Mann develops a lyrical style and a range of mythological allusions, through the forbidden love of a middle-aged man for a teenage boy, a theme with roots in Mann's own emotional experience. In many of his shorter works, Mann uses irony and humour to treat the conflict between sensitive, often artistic souls and the vital, often brutal forces of life. The stories, usually about isolated figures, convey a mixture of humour, sadness, and irony which invites ambivalent responses from readers. This new set of translations by Ritchie Robertson and Nicola Luckhurst is accompanied by explanatory notes and introduction. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

'All his powers were in decline; the only thing growing stronger in him was the conviction that all this could not last much longer, that his demise was imminent.' The Buddenbrooks (1900) was Thomas Mann's first major success. It draws on his own family history and on his vivid memories of growing up in the commercial town of Lübeck in North Germany. The narrative traces the decline of a wealthy, established merchant family, from their height during the middle decades of the eighteenth century, to the onset of uncertainty in the modern world. The novel displays Mann's interest in decline as a psychological process, where artistic sensibility weakens the ruthless business instincts that founded the Buddenbrooks' prosperity. At the centre is the reluctant businessman Thomas Buddenbrook, a tragic figure who conscientiously dedicates himself to a way of life that gradually undermines him. Mike Mitchell's new English translation is accompanied by Ritchie Robertson's introduction and explanatory notes, illuminating the cultural, philosophical, and personal context of the novel's composition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

It is summer time in the Swiss Alps. Hans Castorp, an ‘ordinary young man’, has arrived at an exclusive sanitorium for a brief visit to his convalescent cousin. Once there, time will lose its familiar contours, as Hans himself falls ill and loses himself in a landscape of dreams, beauty and eternal snow.The Magic Mountain is Thomas Mann’s masterwork: a Bildungsroman that is also an allegory of Europe before the devastations of the First World War and a profound meditation on time, art, sickness and death. John E. Woods’ virtuoso translations of Thomas Mann’s novels are widely recognised as the best versions available in English.

‘I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavours. Where might I be, if I were not here?’Buddenbrooks is one of the original, and greatest, of family chronicles: the story of four generations of a wealthy and bourgeois German family as they experience all the anguish and rewards of human life: births, marriages, divorces, deaths, madness, bankruptcy and artistic achievement. Richly realized and profoundly moving, Thomas Mann’s first great novel was published when he was only twenty-five, and was one of the two books for which he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.John E. Woods’s elegant translation is widely acclaimed as the best available English version.

‘This man is mad. Of that there can no longer be any doubt, and it is pitiable that no one representing psychiatric science is part of our circle.’Germany, May 1943: a middle-aged scholar retires to his study to reflect on the life and untimely death of his friend, a once-brilliant composer. How his friend, consumed by over-reaching ambition, entered into a pact with the Devil. How he enjoyed twenty-four years of musical genius and extraordinary creative achievement. And how, inevitably and tragically, the Devil returned to demand satisfaction.A reworking of the classic Faust legend, Doctor Faustus is one of the great novels of the twentieth century: a powerful allegory of the rise of the Nazism in Germany and a meditation on madness, ambition and the dangerous attractions of nihilism.

Thomas Mann described Joseph and His Brothers as his ‘pyramid’: his greatest literary achievement, although the Nazi regime in his homeland did their best to tear it down on its first publication. A vivid and dazzlingly ambitious epic, it retells the Biblical story of Joseph, whose dreams and visions set him apart from his siblings and lead him first to slavery and ultimately to power and prestige in Egypt. With rich detail and unexpected humour, Mann paints the lost landscapes of Egypt, Canaan and Palestine and brings to life the great characters of Genesis – patriarchs, pharaohs, avenged sisters and jealous brothers – in a story of epic grandeur with a family drama at its heart.John E. Woods' translation is considered the definitive English version: a rich and immersive reading experience and a towering achievement of its own.

Ny udgave i hæftet version. Efterfølgeren til første bind af Thomas Manns samlede fortællinger, "Tidlige fortællinger 1893-1912", som udkom til fremragende anmeldelser. Andet bind, "Sene fortællinger 1919-1953", omfatter bl.a. de store fortællinger "De forbyttede hoveder" (1940) og "Loven" (1943). En del af fortællingerne er for mange år siden udkommet på dansk, men det er først med disse to bind, at alle fortællingerne oversættes og udgives sammen. For opgaven står det rutinerede oversætterpar Judyta Preis og Jørgen Herman Monrad, som har roste oversættelser af bl.a. Franz Kafka og Joseph Roth bag sig. Thomas Manns fortællinger er formfuldendte, psykologisk skarpe og sprogligt gnistrende. Det vil glæde mange, at de nu alle bliver tilgængelige på dansk.

Nobel-voittajan monipuolinen kertomuskokoelma. Kuolema Venetsiassa ja muita kertomuksia muodostaa jännittävän kaaren 22-vuotiaan lahjakkuuden näytteestä 78-vuotiaan neron taiteeseen. Kertomuksissa näkyy havainnollisesti Mannin merkitys modernin ihmiskuvan muovaajana: hänen psykologinen silmänsä näki ihmisen pimeän ja torjutun puolen, eikä hän arastellut ottaa sitä taiteensa keskeiseksi aiheeksi. THOMAS MANN (1875–1955) on 1900-luvun saksalaisen kertomataiteen merkkihenkilö. Hän syntyi suurliikemiehen poikana Lyypekissä ja muutti natsihallinnon aikana maanpakoon. Ennen vuonna 1929 myönnettyä Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkintoa hän oli kirjoittanut mm. teokset Buddenbrookit ja Taikavuori, joiden jälkeen hän loi mm. romaanit Tohtori Faustus ja Huijari Felix Krullin tunnustukset.