Mario and the Magician
& other stories
$41.12
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
28 October 1996
Summary
An extraordinary collection of stories from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The title story, one of Mann’s most political, explores the rise of fascism by way of a mysterious magician in a small Italian village.
Mann’s short stories explore his abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits. In ‘A Man and his Dog’, domestic tempests are symbols of the muddle of humanity. In ‘The Black Swan’, the demands of intellect clash wi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780749386627 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0749386622 |
| Author: | Thomas Mann |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 28 October 1996 |
| Weight: | 262g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
The greatest German novelist of the 20th century * Spectator *
A monumental writer * Sunday Telegraph *
Mann is Germany’s outstanding modern classic, a decadent representative of the tradition of Goethe and Schiller. With his famous irony, he was up there with Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud, holding together the modern world with a love of art and imagination to compensate for the emptiness left by social and religious collapse * Independent *
Probably the greatest of modern German novelists * New York Times *
About The Author
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
Thomas Mann is widely regarded as the greatest German novelist of the twentieth century. His first novel, Buddenbrooks, was a huge success and led to a Nobel Prize in Literature. However, when the Nazis came to power, his works were blacklisted and burned, and Mann was stripped of his citizenship. He spent the latter part of his life in exile in the United States and Switzerland. His other major novels include The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus, and Joseph and His Brothers.
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