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A portrayal of genius possessed, through the biography of the composer Adrian Leverkuhn, narrated by his friend Zeitblom in the years 1943-45, as Germany faces ruin.

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Este volumen reúne, por primera vez en lengua española, la totalidad de los textos breves de ficción, ordenados cronológicamente, de Thomas Mann, un autor de verdadero talento y uno de los más influyentes en la historia de la literatura universal, algunos de ellos nunca antes traducidos.Una soberbia lección del arte de narrar, con una presentación de Marisa Siguán que nos invita a mirar con nuevos ojos una obra inmortal. Una obra concentrada para poder entender el proceso creativo de Mann y comprender su evolución como novelista

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Read Thomas Mann's meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination. Mann's novel, written some 150 years after Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, follows Lotte Kestner, Goethe's real-life heroine, as she makes a pilgrimage to Weimar to meet the author who courted her forty years before. To her surprise, Lotte is greeted on her arrival as a celebrity and immediately taken up into Goethe's set. Time and place are brilliantly evoked in Mann's novel, but its genius lies in his masterful portrayal of Goethe himself, and of the astonishing influence he exerted on his contemporaries.'A masterpiece' Stefan Zweig

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Discover Thomas Mann's comic novel of deception and misplaced confidence - back in print for the first time in over twenty years. Waiter by day, man about Paris by night; the young and good looking Felix Krull has created for himself a personality to charm and deceive the world of wealth. When the Marquis de Venosta makes him a proposal that he can't refuse, the young Felix finds himself on the pathway that will elevate him into the world of riches.'The most astonishing work that Mann ever wrote and also one of the most perfect' Edwin Muir

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A masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.Adrian Leverkühn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer - creative and brilliant, but he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Intentionally contracting syphilis in order to deepen his creative potential through madness, Adrian makes his pact with nature. Mann's interpretation of the Faustian legend is a story of madness and sanity, genius and corruption, intellectual attainment and Germany's moral fall.'Arguably the great German novel' New York TimesTHE ORIGINAL TRANSLATION BY H. T. LOWE-PORTER

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As Seen on BBC Between the CoversThis European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneration of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of the First World War.Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Hans falls in love and becomes intoxicated with the ideas he hears at the clinic - ideas which will strain and crack apart in a world on the verge of the First World War.'Magnificent... a beautiful, feverish account of obsessive love' Jonathan Coe, Guardian'The greatest German novelist of the 20th century' Spectator

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La monumental tetralogía bíblica de Thomas Mann, obra cumbre del autor alemán.El presente estuche reúne en dos volúmenes las cuatro novelas de tema bíblico que componen la tetralogía José y sus hermanos, escrita entre 1926 y 1943 y considerada por Thomas Mann su pirámide. Ambientadas en Oriente Próximo en el siglo XIV antes de la era actual, Las historias de Las historias de Jaacob , El joven José , José en Egipto y José el proveedor desarrollan la historia de Jaacob y su hijo José, descendientes directos del patriarca Abrahán. Mann expande cada episodio de su fuente -los capítulos 27 a 50 del Génesis- con una prosa serena e inquisitiva, dotando a Jaacob y José de cualidades reconociblemente humanas. Conforme avanzan en sus aventuras, estos héroes imperfectos nos hablan de la responsabilidad individual frente a lo colectivo, la historia frente a la leyenda y la razón frente a la insensatez. El conjunto es una saga de dimensiones wagnerianas en la que el excepcional novelista alemán

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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

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Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic.The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success.In this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' New York Times

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