Death In Venice; Tristan; Tonio Kröger; Doctor Faustus; Mario And The Magician; A Man And His Dog; The Black Swan; Confessions Of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
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Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
This landmark collection gathers some of the most celebrated works of twentieth-century German literature, presenting a rich panorama of Thomas Mann's novellas and novels that together chronicle the tensions between art, desire, morality, and decay. Death in Venice traces the fatal obsession of an aging writer consumed by beauty and dissolution on the canals of Venice, while Tonio Kröger and Tristan illustrate the painful alienation of the artistic soul caught between bourgeois life and creative longing. Doctor Faustus stands as Mann's most ambitious and devastating work, a profound allegory in which a composer's Mephistophelian bargain mirrors the spiritual and cultural collapse of Germany itself, rendered in a tone of grave, mournful irony. Mario and the Magician presents a chilling political parable of manipulation and mass submission, The Black Swan uncovers the dangerous self-deceptions of late-life passion, and A Man and His Dog offers a rare, tender interlude of lyrical simplicity. The collection closes with the irresistible comic energy of Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, in which Mann's charming rogue narrator illustrates that identity itself is the grandest of all performances. Spanning tragedy, satire, allegory, and wit, this essential volume showcases the full breadth of one of world literature's most commanding and intellectually formidable voices.
Author: Thomas Mann
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Secker & Warburg / Octopus
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
This landmark collection gathers some of the most celebrated works of twentieth-century German literature, presenting a rich panorama of Thomas Mann's novellas and novels that together chronicle the tensions between art, desire, morality, and decay. Death in Venice traces the fatal obsession of an aging writer consumed by beauty and dissolution on the canals of Venice, while Tonio Kröger and Tristan illustrate the painful alienation of the artistic soul caught between bourgeois life and creative longing. Doctor Faustus stands as Mann's most ambitious and devastating work, a profound allegory in which a composer's Mephistophelian bargain mirrors the spiritual and cultural collapse of Germany itself, rendered in a tone of grave, mournful irony. Mario and the Magician presents a chilling political parable of manipulation and mass submission, The Black Swan uncovers the dangerous self-deceptions of late-life passion, and A Man and His Dog offers a rare, tender interlude of lyrical simplicity. The collection closes with the irresistible comic energy of Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, in which Mann's charming rogue narrator illustrates that identity itself is the grandest of all performances. Spanning tragedy, satire, allegory, and wit, this essential volume showcases the full breadth of one of world literature's most commanding and intellectually formidable voices.