Collected Stories
by Thomas Mann
ISBN-10
1857151968
ISBN-13
9781857151961
Publisher
EverymanPublished on
Jun 28, 2001Edition
1st Edition
Binding
Trade ClothDimensions
6.30 x 0.79 x 8.27 In
Weight
2.03 Pounds
About the Book
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. Dr Faustus and Buddenbrooks are already available in Everyman