Joseph and His Brothers

Mann, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436272342 ISBN 13: 9780436272349

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1970

Joseph and His Brothers (The Tales of Jacob; Young Joseph; Joseph in Egypt; Joseph the Provider)

Review:

This excellent new translation by John E. Woods is a cause for celebration: first, because Joseph and His Brothers is in fact a great novel that will now be discovered by a new generation of readers; and second, because Woods himself is to be credited with an extraordinary achievement . . . Woods tackles the challenges of Mann s wide-ranging diction with exuberance . . . Mann has finally found his ideal English translator. New Republic, Ruth Franklin"

-This excellent new translation by John E. Woods is a cause for celebration: first, because Joseph and His Brothers is in fact a great novel that will now be discovered by a new generation of readers; and second, because Woods himself is to be credited with an extraordinary achievement . . . Woods tackles the challenges of Mann's wide-ranging diction with exuberance . . . Mann has finally found his ideal English translator.- -New Republic, Ruth Franklin

"This excellent new translation by John E. Woods is a cause for celebration: first, because Joseph and His Brothers is in fact a great novel that will now be discovered by a new generation of readers; and second, because Woods himself is to be credited with an extraordinary achievement . . . Woods tackles the challenges of Mann's wide-ranging diction with exuberance . . . Mann has finally found his ideal English translator." -New Republic, Ruth Franklin

Book Description:

This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner's great masterpiece is a major literary event.