Mario the Magician - Hardcover

Mann, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568490356 ISBN 13: 9781568490359

Publisher: Buccaneer Books, 1991

Synopsis

Mann’s short stories explore his abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits. In ‘A Man and his Dog’, domestic tempests are symbols of the muddle of humanity. In ‘The Black Swan’, the demands of intellect clash with physical desires. And in ‘Mario and the Magician’ a young family on holiday in Italy encounters a creepy entertainer: Cipolla, a hypnotist with a fascist-like will to control his audience.

Written between 1918 and 1953, this collection shows the literary development of one of Germany’s most important writers.

About this title

Review:

"The greatest German novelist of the 20th century" (Spectator)

"A monumental writer" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Mann is Germany's outstanding modern classic, a decadent representative of the tradition of Goethe and Schiller. With his famous irony, he was up there with Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud, holding together the modern world with a love of art and imagination to compensate for the emptiness left by social and religious collapse" (Independent)

"Probably the greatest of modern German novelists" (New York Times)

Book Description:

An extraordinary collection of stories from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature - the title story, one of Mann's most political, explores the rise of facism by way of a mysterious magician in a small Italian village

About this edition

• Publisher: Buccaneer Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1568490356
• ISBN 13: 9781568490359
• Binding: Hardcover