Six Early Stories (Green Integer)

Mann, Thomas

ISBN 10: 1892295741 / ISBN 13: 9781892295743

Published by Green Integer, 2003

This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . Seller Inventory # mon0000445223

Synopsis:

Winner of the 1998 PEN / Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

“These early stories… are well worth reading. They are also a welcome addition to the body of Mann’s work in English. But they are something more. They remind us of what has been lost in the dissolution and passing of modernism. The boldness, daring and risk-taking in both formal, technical matters and in explicit, thematic explorations remain as admirable today as they were a century ago.”
— Steven Marcus, The New York Times Book Review, 9-21-1997

American readers will recall the German, Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Mann’s Stories of Three Decades (1936), which purposely excluded several early tales that the English translator found “tentative and awkward efforts.” As this volume’s editor, Burton Pike, notes, however, “Times and interests change; in 1936 Thomas Mann, in exile from Nazi Germany, was celebrated as a leading spokesman for the threatened humanistic values of Western civilization.” Mann’s early development seemed unimportant within that context, but such a judgment now seems arbitrary and wrong.

Synopsis: Six stories by the Nobel laureate written between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four reveal his philosophical and literary influences.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Six Early Stories (Green Integer)
Publisher: Green Integer
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good