Pro Contra Wagner by Mann Thomas (15 results)

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Paper Back. Condition: Good. First Edition. First softcover printing; Mild cover-wear; Clean text; Good Plus.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback copy (NOT ex-library). Shelfwear, about a dozen pages with markings. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Note inked inside back cover, else text clean; binding tight; moderate wear to covers. 229 pages.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing of the English language edition by the University of Chicago Press edition (1985). A VG 8vo hardcover in NO dust jacket (if issued). The contents (229 pp.) appear as if unread--i.e., clean and tight. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Lightly rubbed covers from shelf wear. NOT an ex-library copy. We ship most book orders within 24 hours. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition (London, 1985). A few light pencil markings to Erich Heller's 'Introduction', none thereafter. (The text is fine and unmarked after p.21.) Page block top edge faintly dust-toned. Unclipped dust jacket. No tears or conspicuous damage, with some light local shelf wear (e.g. to the spine head, to the front top corner), light diagonal crease to back inside flap, and with some surface handling marks. (Now beneath a protective archival cover.) Black cloth with bright gilt titling to the spine. The boards remain clean and sharp. A complete first edition, in a rare unclipped dust jacket. Translated by Allan Blunden. Preface by Patrick Carnegy. With an Introduction by Erich Heller. 229pp. (Please note: international shipping tracked & signature only; some additional shipping fees will likely be requested.).…

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Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in wraps.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1985 first edition University of Chicago Press (Chicago, Illinois), 5 5/8 x 8 3/4 inches tall black buckram cloth hardcover volume, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt lettering to spine, 229 pp. Slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP238~ [2.0P] This volume brings together Thomas Mann's reflections of a lifetime on the composer to whom he felt closest. The novelist's admiration for Wagner was, however, by no means uncritical. Following Nietzsche, Mann knew that one had a duty to be both 'pro and contra Wagner' - hence the title of this collection. Its centerpiece, 'The Sorrows and Grandeur of Richard Wagner,' is one of the most revealing essays on the composer ever written. Delivered as a lecture in Munich within two weeks of Hitler having become Chancellor, Mann's blasphemous view of Wagner's art as 'dilettantism raised to the level of genius,' was the immediate cause of his long exile from German soil. This and the other major essay in the book (on the Ring) have long been out of print. They are presented here in wholly new translations which capture more faithfully than previous renderings the tone and literary distinction of the original texts. The forty-four other items, written between 1902 and 1951, include many which have never before been available in English. As Erich Heller says in his introduction, these incomparable writings are 'an essential fragment of the novelist's intellectual autobiography.' Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.…