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02628aam a22003618i 4500 001 AD37D744B8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230302011926 008 221209s2023 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022058678 020 $a 1631498487 020 $a 9781631498480 035 $a (OCoLC)1354231129 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PT2625 A44 N49 2023 100 1 $a Mann, Thomas, $d 1875-1955, $e author. 245 10 $a New selected stories / $c Thomas Mann ; translated by Damion Searls. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2302 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Liveright, $c [2023] 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and 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 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. The 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, 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Mann, Thomas, $d 1875-1955 $v Translations into English. 700 1 $a Searls, Damion, $e translator. 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117011508.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230603010745.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230405011621.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230307010636.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AD37D744B8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search