{"product_id":"thomas-mann-new-selected-stories-1324094524","title":"Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1324094524\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mann, Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLit Hub: Most Anticipated Books of 2023Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Manns best stories-including his masterpiece, in its first English translation in nearly a century. A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer-the starched collar, as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Manns genius.The headliner of this volume, Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow (in its first new translation since 1936)-a subtle masterpiece that reveals the profound emotional significance of everyday life-is Manns tender but sharp-eyed portrait of the Bigs and Littles of the bourgeois Cornelius family as they adjust to straitened circumstances in hyperinflationary Weimar Germany. Here, too, is a free-standing excerpt from Manns first novel, Buddenbrooks-a sensation when it was first published. Death in Venice (also included in this volume) is Manns most famous story, but less well known is that he intended it to be a diptych with another, comic story-included here as Confessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull. Louisey-a tale of sexual humiliation that gives a first glimpse of Manns lifelong ambivalence about the power of art-rounds out this revelatory, transformative collection. black-and-white frontispiece\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51327951012128,"sku":"NEW1324094524","price":22.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81L4-h4mnBL.jpg?v=1773175621","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/thomas-mann-new-selected-stories-1324094524","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}