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1. Death in Venice and Other Stories (Signet Classics) by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2006-11-07)
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Mann's "Death in Venice" and More
Wagner never sounded so good
The Sorrows of Youth
Art as a way of life "Tristan" takes the artist-bourgeois conflict to a setting that presages Mann's definitive novel "The Magic Mountain."The protagonist, an offbeat writer named Spinell confined to a tuberculosis sanatarium, takes an interest in a fellow patient, a businessman's wife who, he discovers, is a sensitive and tasteful amateur pianist.He writes her husband a derogatory letter, deploring him as a philistine who does not deserve to share his life with this secretly artistic woman, which results in a heated confrontation between the two men.In "The Child Prodigy," Mann's tone turns satirical as he focuses on an eight-year-old concert pianist giving an electrifying public performance to an audience whose various reactions -- wonder, jealousy, indifference -- are reflections upon themselves more so than on the performer. "Death in Venice" is the boldest piece in this collection, unambiguously presenting homosexuality in an artistically positive light but also showing something of a German fascination with Italian culture and scenery.Gustav Aschenbach, the protagonist, again seems to reflect Mann to an extent as a middle-aged, widowed, respected author from Munich who becomes infatuated with a teenage boy while vacationing in Venice.Whether this love ever becomes mutual or physical is not as important as the mood Mann invokes about European cultural and moral decadence, possibly symbolized by the cholera epidemic that sweeps through the city. "Man and Dog: An Idyll" is a brilliant meditation on the narrator's affectionate and occasionally difficult relationship with his pet pointer and also allows a glimpse of life in the industrialized and suburbanized Germany of the early twentieth century.To say that Mann gives the dog a human personality may seem a cliche, but few writers could achieve his level of empathy in relating a dog's behavior and desires in man's terms without resorting to outright personification. A disturbing inversion of this story is told in "Tobias Mindernickel," in which a lonely old man, given no personal background by Mann, ostracized in his neighborhood by adults and taunted by children, buys a dog and demands from it the obedience and respect he has never earned from people. Mann is truly one of the most important figures in twentieth century literature.What he chose to portray, and the talent with which he portrayed it, brighten the legacy of a century that threatened to destroy art in so many ways for so many insane reasons.
Art and Time in Italy |
2. Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider by Thomas Mann | |
Hardcover: 1492
Pages
(2005-05)
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Pleasantly Surprised
Mann's reader as participant in the festival
Cosmic Delight, Comic Gesture
AN OUTSTANDING BOOK
Beautiful! |
3. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 720
Pages
(1996-10-01)
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different
Freedom from responsibility
Book
Excellent
Magic Mountain Thrills Again |
4. Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 402
Pages
(1989-03-13)
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Good price for good quality
Mann's skills do not translate
A Mann for All Seasons: A festschrift of the Nobel Prize Winning author's best short works
Depressing German bourgeois narcissism
Works of the Greatest German writerbut troubling human being. |
5. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman's Library) by Thomas Mann | |
Hardcover: 784
Pages
(1994-10-04)
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Death in Lubeck.
Life in a Northern Town (a young adult novel)
A Very Dull Read
A magnificent masterpiece of literature. Amazing, he was but 24 when it was published!
Decline and fall of a bourgeois family |
6. Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 544
Pages
(1999-07-27)
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Satanic Maestro
An Almost Peerless Book
Asking the Right Questions
Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" is a descent into hellamid the dance of thundering flames
Gorgeous binding |
7. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann | |
Hardcover: 160
Pages
(2004-06-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom. In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity." Customer Reviews (5)
A little repetative at times but no the less a Classic Read
A Plague on Both City and Artist
transcendant translation
A 21st Century Facelift For a Classic (Ink Fresh But Dried) But since then we've had Will and Grace and countless gay characters, mostly minor, in films and on TV--and one of the great things is that it's okay to laugh about it all.Even at what we in the community used to call tragic and sometimes in our bitchier moments still do.This translation invites us to smile, and even occasionally howl.By giving Aschenbach an obsession with the Greek gods (toward the end he uses the words god and godlike about a dozen times in two pages), Mann not only shows us what was required at the time as a good alibi or cover for homosexual tendencies (not even "identities")--"classical culture" and "noble classicism" and so on: everything that involved nude boys and swimming hole frolics and attention served to youth and beauty in young beauties--but also gave us in the future (inadvertantly, I don't know, since I don't read German) the keys to understanding a period in which so-called bourgeois culture needed its literature and high art to justify the ancients' curious sexual habits.An almost neurasthenic obsession with youth and health and beauty being an ironic side feature of cultured life. The result for Mann, in one instance, is a wonderfully dry scene in which the old writer goes to the barber and frowns at his "pinched face" in the mirror, thereby unleashing a torrent of rationales from the barber for working his own art on the aging artist: dye job, little curl here and there, rouge.It's an astoundingly paced and worded moment, and what it leads up to is more dramatic and complex than I remembered in the most famous version.It's not so much about loneliness and a necessarily tragic life, it turns out in this makeover, as about the way we hide ourselves, cloak ourselves, in the identities the world wants to see.That's the tragedy Mann's getting at.Now the yellowing lenses of post-Victorianism have been lifted to reveal this more clearly. So, three cheers for Michael Henry Heim--and five stars!
A New Translation: DEATH IN VENICE more radiant than ever! Once von Aschenbach accepts the fact that he is in love with the idea of Tadzio he sets about to quash rumors of the threat that cholera is invading Venice to keep his Polish lad from leaving the city (and von Aschenbach) with his family."Thus the addled traveler could no longer think or care about anything but pursuing unrelentingly the object that had so inflamed him, dreaming of him in his absence, and, as is the lover's wont, speaking tender words to his mere shadow.Loneliness, the foreign environment, and the joy of a belated and profound exhilaration prompted him, persuaded him to indulge without shame or remorse in the most distasteful behavior, as when returning from Venice [to the Lido] late one evening he had paused at the beautiful boy's door on the second floor of the hotel and pressed his forehead against the hinge in drunken rapture, unable to tear himself away even at the risk of being discovered and caught." Has Heim 'changed' Mann's story in to a more titillating one? No, indeed not! But he has rescued it from the mere Apollonian/Dionysian rhetoric with whichother translations have cloaked the sensual aspects of the story.Here von Aschenbach becomes a fully three-dimensional character, one whose life up to the entry into Venice is understood and appreciated as a writer of brilliance, and one whose epiphany of the Eros submerged in this intellectual psyche blossoms in the most credible, tender way that far from being transformed into a 'pedophile', he is instead in that wondrous plane where awakened emotions of love and longing dwell. Michael Cunningham has written a beautiful introduction to this new translation and, as we have come to expect from this contemporary gifted man of letters, his words are warm and befitting his admiration for this work by Thomas Mann.This is a book to be read and read again, and should you have other versions of DEATH IN VENICE in your library, that is all the more reason to pleasure your mind with the genius of this translation.Highly recommended! ... Read more |
8. The Magic Mountain (Everyman's Library) by Thomas Mann | |
Hardcover: 904
Pages
(2005-06-21)
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Arrogant arrogance!l
One the 20th Century's Greatest Novels
Illness is life and death
Truly Marvelous
For serious readers... |
9. Thomas Mann: Metal Artist by Andrei Codrescu, Lloyd E. Herman, Thomas Mann, Michael W. Monroe | |
Hardcover: 127
Pages
(2001-10)
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Amazing art, amazing artist
Thomas Mann metal artist
Simply delicious - buy it before it is too late.
Fabulous Book!!!
Pleasing to the Eye |
10. The Black Swan by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 155
Pages
(1990-10-16)
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Far too musty
Search for Love The setting of the story is the 1920's.Rosalie is a widow and a Rhinelander.Her daughter Anna, nearly age 30, is her dearest companion.Her son Eduard, considerably younger than Anna, wants his mother to hire Ken Keaton, a young American, as his English teacher.His mother accedes to his wish.Rosalie is vivacious in Mr. Keaton's presence.She is beginning to lose her heart to him.Rosalie possesses self-knowledge, she is ashamed.Rosalie comes to rejoice in her torment.Her son and daughter see the situation and her son says to her he has learned a sufficient amount of English and the services of Mr. Keaton are no longer required. During the social season Ken Keaton is seen in other people's houses.Rosalie confesses to Anna that she loves Ken Keaton.Anna points out he has little to inspire such passion and suffering.She characterizes her mother's enchantment as absurd.Rosalie is led to use restraint so that under no circumstances would young Eduard feel compelled to defend her honor. She misreads her own physiological state.She has come to believe that her love has wrought a change in her middle-aged condition.Her death is swift.During the last hospitalization she remembers the black swan. The formality of the language employed is notable.The descriptions of Rosalie's malady may be held to be excessively clinical.
Another Beautifully Done Mann Masterpiece & Accessible TOO!
Is there a doctor in the house?
Not Mann's best but still excellent The root of the story,however, is conflict with nature - Rosalie is enlivened with a love ofnature, a nature that betrays her in her daughter with a club foot, inmenopause, in uterine cancer ... An excellent study of a subject that wassomewhat taboo when this book was initially published. ... Read more |
11. The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India by Thomas Mann | |
Mass Market Paperback: 128
Pages
(1959-09-12)
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An Underappreciated Masterpiece!
In the heart and in the head
Dante, Meet Descartes; or, Two Heads in Conversation
the dilema of whether "listening" to your heart or your head
Story of love, marriage and desire |
12. Doctor Faustus (Everyman's Library) by Thomas Mann, H. T. Lowe-Porter | |
Hardcover: 580
Pages
(1992-06-02)
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Modern Library edition
A Monumental Work But Also A Heavy Read
A Reckoning.
A shattering feast of despair
great and dark novel |
13. Rowohlt Bildmonographien: Thomas Mann (German Edition) by Klaus Schröter | |
Paperback: 186
Pages
(1993-12-31)
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14. Georg Lukacs and Thomas Mann: A Study in the Sociology of Literature by Judith Marcus | |
Hardcover: 208
Pages
(1988-03)
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15. A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) by Herbert Lehnert | |
Paperback: 363
Pages
(2009-05-01)
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16. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2005-05-31)
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Editorial Review Product Description The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom. In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity." Customer Reviews (49)
Thamas Mann's acclaimed masterpiece
Disappointing Little Story
Great Prose. Creepy Content
impending morality and its wish of rejuvination
an odd little novella |
17. Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 400
Pages
(1992-03-31)
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Aesthete's Gather Round, and enjoy this book
a prostitute ply her trade
A Cautionary Tale For The Pseudo-Intellectual
A Portrait of Narcissism
Mann in a humorous vein |
18. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(1999-05-01)
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Is Thomas Mann boring? You probably were too young or read a bad translation-He's really a morose Woody Allen.
Sizzle sans steak...
Lust and Death in Venice
Classic Tale
different translation |
19. Thomas Mann's Death in Venice: A Reference Guide (Greenwood Guides to Literature) by Ellis Shookman | |
Hardcover: 168
Pages
(2004-03-30)
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20. BUDDENBROOKS by Thomas Mann | |
Mass Market Paperback: 595
Pages
(1961)
Asin: B00128S7F4 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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