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Lit Hub: Most Anticipated Books of 2023Sparkling new translations highlight the humor & 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 & 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 & Childhood Sorrow" (in its 1st 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" & "Littles" of the bourgeois Cornelius family asthey 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 i

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Author

Damion Searls

Publisher

Liveright

Published

2023

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction