Joseph and His Brothers: Translated and Introduced by John E. Woods by Mann, Thomas

Joseph and His Brothers: Translated and Introduced by John E. Woods (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781400040018)

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Joseph and His Brothers: Translated and Introduced by John E. Woods by Mann, Thomas

Joseph and His Brothers: Translated and Introduced by John E. Woods

$45.00
Joseph and His Brothers: Translated and Introduced by John E. Woods by Mann, Thomas

Joseph and His Brothers: Translated and Introduced by John E. Woods

$45.00
Format: Hardcover
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This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner's great masterpiece is a major literary event.

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.



Author: Thomas Mann
ISBN-10: 1400040019
ISBN-13: 9781400040018
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2005
Pages: 1536
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.42lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.20w x 2.19d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/15/2005 pg. 76
Library Journal 01/01/2005
Library Journal 03/15/2005 pg. 127
By Thomas Mann
By Thomas Mann
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Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany. He was only twenty-five when his first novel, Buddenbrooks, was published. In 1924 The Magic Mountain was published, and, five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948). Thomas Mann died in 1955.

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