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Sparkling new translations highlight the humor & poignancy of Mann's 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 & 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.The headliner of this volume, "Chaotic World & Childhood Sorrow" (in its 1st 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" & "Littles" of the bourgeois Cornelius family asthey adjust to straitened circumstances in hyperinflationary Weimar Germany. Here, too, is a free-standing excerpt from Mann’s first novel, Buddenbrooks—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.
Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French, & Dutch & a writer in English. He has translated four books & a libretto by Jon Fosse – Melancholy (co-translated with Grethe Kvernes),Aliss at the Fire, Morning & Evening (novel & libretto),...
