{"product_id":"thomas-mann-von-thomas-mann-ubersetzt-von-damion-searls","title":"Thomas Mann","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 Mann's genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Mann's 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 Mann's first novel, \u003cem\u003eBuddenbrooks\u003c\/em\u003e-a sensation when it was first published. \"Death in Venice\" (also included in this volume) is Mann's 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 Mann's lifelong ambivalence about the power of art-rounds out this revelatory, transformative collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781324094524\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eNew Selected Stories\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781324094524","offer_id":58530018623813,"sku":"9781324094524","price":19.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/73461_a84bee8a-8d78-4032-bfcd-1f0ac3671443.jpg?v=1783742718","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/thomas-mann-von-thomas-mann-ubersetzt-von-damion-searls","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}