mann thomas joseph and his brothers
Mann Thomas Joseph And His Brothers
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts-The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider-as a unified narrative, a "mythological novel" of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the world of patriarchs and pharaohs, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and the universal force of human love in all its beauty, desperation, absurdity, and pain. The result is a brilliant amalgam of humor, emotion, psychological insight, and epic grandeur. Now the award-winning translator John E. Woods gives us a definitive new English version of Joseph and His Brothers that is worthy of Mann's achievement, revealing the novel's exuberant polyphony of ancient and modern voices, a rich music that is by turns elegant, coarse, and sublime.
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Dostoevsky Fyodor The Karamazov Brothers
As Fyodor Karamazov "awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to patricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The search reveals the divisions which rack the brothers, yet paradoxically unite them. Around the writhings of this one disfunctional family Dostoevsky weaves a dense network of social, psychological and philosophical relationships. At the same time he shows - from the opening 'scandal' scene in the monastery to a personal appearance by an eccentric Devil - that his dramatic skills have lost nothing of their edge. The Karamazov Brothers, completed a few months before Dostoevsky's death in 1881. remains for many the high point of his genius as novelist and chronicler of the modern malaise. It cast a long shadow over D. H. Lawrence. Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, and other giants of twentieth-century European literature.
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Dostoevsky F. The Karamazov Brothers
As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The search reveals the divisions which rack the brothers, yet paradoxically unite them. Around the writhings of this one dysfunctional family Dostoevsky weaves a dense network of social, psychological and philosophical relationships.At the same time he shows - from the opening 'scandal' scene in the monastery to a personal appearance by an eccentric Devil - that his dramatic skills have lost nothing of their edge. The Karamazov Brothers, completed a few months before Dostoevsky's death in 1881, remains for many the high point of his genius as novelist and chronicler of the modern malaise.It cast a long shadow over D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, and other giants of twentieth-century European literature.
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Dostoevsky F. The Karamazov Brothers
As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The search reveals the divisions which rack the brothers, yet paradoxically unite them. Around the writhings of this one dysfunctional family Dostoevsky weaves a dense network of social, psychological and philosophical relationships.At the same time he shows - from the opening 'scandal' scene in the monastery to a personal appearance by an eccentric Devil - that his dramatic skills have lost nothing of their edge. The Karamazov Brothers, completed a few months before Dostoevsky's death in 1881, remains for many the high point of his genius as novelist and chronicler of the modern malaise.It cast a long shadow over D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, and other giants of twentieth-century European literature.
262 Руб.
Mann Thomas Buddenbrooks
First published in 1901, when Thomas Mann was only twenty-five, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to life that it scandalized the author's former neighbours in his native Lubeck. As he charts the Buddenbrooks' decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence and madness, Mann ushers the reader into a world of vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip and earthy humour.
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Kafka Franz The Castle
'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him' Vladimir Nabokov The story of K. and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K.'s isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomises Kafka's vision of twentieth-century alienation and anxiety.
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Kafka F. The Castle
He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him Vladimir Nabokov The story of K. and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K.s isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomises Kafkas vision of twentieth-century alienation and anxiety.
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Kafka F. The Castle
He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him Vladimir Nabokov The story of K. and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K.s isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomises Kafkas vision of twentieth-century alienation and anxiety.
725 Руб.
Steinbeck John To a God Unknown
While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity andthe farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control theforces of nature and to understand the ways of God.
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Mann Thomas Joseph, der Ernahrer
Nach drei Jahren im Gefangnis kann sich Joseph dank seiner Fahigkeit zur Traumdeutung befreien. Er ist der einzige, der die Traume des Pharao versteht und als mythische Ankundigung sieben fetter und sieben magerer Jahre auslegt. Er gibt dem Pharao den Rat, die Fulle der fetten Jahre zum Vorrat fur die mageren zu nutzen, der dankbare Pharao ubertragt diese Aufgabe Joseph, dem Ernahrer. Die Durre der mageren Jahre treibt die Hirten Kanaans nach Agypten, es kommt zum Wiedersehen mit den Brudern und mit Jaakob. Der abschlie?ende vierte Teil der 'Josephs'-Romane erschien 1943 bei Bermann-Fischer in Stockholm.
2909 Руб.
Mann Thomas Joseph in Agypten
Nachdem Joseph ein weiteres Mal als Sklave weitergereicht wurde, kommt er an Potiphars Hof und steht in dessen Diensten. Seine Frau, Mut-em-enet, findet Gefallen an dem vierundzwanzigjahrigen Jungling und beginnt, um ihn zu werben. Joseph widersteht, da er die Rache Gottes furchtet. Durch eine Intrige erwirkt die gedemutigte Mut, dass Joseph im Gefangnis landet. Der dritte Teil der 'Josephs'-Romane erschien 1936 bei Bermann-Fischer in Wien.
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Mann Thomas Der junge Joseph
Im zweiten Band der Tetralogie wird Joseph zur Hauptfigur. Der siebzehnjahirge Held besticht durch seine jugendliche Schonheit und durch seinen Verstand. Dieser Spatgeborene ist der Liebling Jaakobs, und diese Liebe weckt den Neid der alteren Bruder, fuhrt zu Zwist in der Sippe. Schlie?lich wird Joseph von seinen Brudern gedemutigt und an fremde Handler verkauft. Dem Vater erzahlen sie, sein Jungster sei von einem wilden Tier getotet worden. 'Der junge Joseph' erschien 1934 bei S. Fischer in Berlin.
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Auster Paul The Book of Illusions
The Book of Illusions, written with breath-taking urgency and precision, plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, and the violent and the tender dissolve into one another. One man’s obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in grief. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to laugh . . . Mann was a comic genius, in trademark white suit and fluttering black moustache. But one morning in 1929 he walked out of his house and was never heard from again. Zimmer’s obsession with Mann drives him to publish a study of his work; whereupon he receives a letter postmarked New Mexico, supposedly written by Mann’s wife, and inviting him to visit the great Mann himself. Can Hector Mann be alive? Zimmer cannot decide – until a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever.
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Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan Ghostly Tales I. An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House" is told through the eyes of Dick, a medical student who moves with his cousin Tom into his uncle's unoccupied house on Aungier Street, somewhere in Dublin. Dick and Tom begin having nightmares in which they are visited by mysterious floating portraits and the ghost of the judge.
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Mann Thomas Collected Stories
Famous for his novels, Thomas Mann is more accessible through the shorter fictions which span his entire career. The most famous of these stories is one of the earliest. Death in Venice was made into the celebrated Visconti film, but all his mature preoccupations are present in this story: the need for a sense of meaning in existence, the relationship between life and art, the central role of sexual energy and the strange forms it can take, the place of death and disease, the importance of work, the individual's complex relations with his society and the dominant culture. These themes are developed in a series of brilliant stories, may of them very short and displaying the author's talent for macabre comedy.
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Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan The Tenants of Malory II
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 -1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "The Tenants of Malory" is the sensation novel about two feuding families, Verney and Fanshawe, and their ambiguous relationship. Arthur, Lord Verney's nephew, cannot choose between his feelings to Margaret Fanshawe and for his benefit. Through this novel, the author asks a question - how many moral principles is a person willing to sacrifice for a brief sense of superiority?
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