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The translation by Willard Trask makes it yet clearer how unfortunate the English world was to have Mann introduced to it through Helen Lower-Porter

The translation by Willard Trask makes it yet clearer how unfortunate the English world was to have Mann introduced to it through Helen Lower-Porter. I can't speak for faithfulness to the original, but surely Mann's German does not make for cringing and headaches as often as Lowe-Porter's English does; I imagine that the immense, startling beauty of Mann-via-Woods is more the thing.

In "The Black Swan Thomas Mann returns to the compact dimensions and to the subject matter of "Death in Venice .

In "The Black Swan Thomas Mann returns to the compact dimensions and to the subject matter of "Death in Venice (transposed into heterosexual terms)-the infatuation of an aging person for a young on. .A provocative addition to Mann's writings. J. Rolo, "Atlantic Monthly. Thomas Mann's bold and disturbing novella, first published in England in 1954, is the feminine counterpart of his masterpiece Death in Venice. Written from the point of view of a woman in what we might now call a mid-life crisis.

by Thomas Mann · Willard R. Trask. Thomas Mann's bold and disturbing novella, written in 1952, is the feminine counterpart of his masterpiece Death in Venice. In this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by suc. The Case of Comrade Tulayev. by Victor Serge · Willard R. Trask · Susan Sontag.

The Black Swan (in German, Die Betrogene: Erzählung) is a German novella written by Thomas Mann, first published in 1954. A period work, it takes place in Düsseldorf, Germany, in the late 1930s. Rosalie, a 50-year-old widow, finds her youthful manner diminished by the "organic phenomena of her time of life," or menopause. She lives with her adult unmarried daughter and an adolescent son, both of whom juxtapose youth to her "superannuated" purpose in life.

Thomas Mann was born into a well-to-do upper class family in Lubeck, Germany. His mother was a talented musician and his father a successful merchant. From this background, Mann derived one of his dominant themes, the clash of views between the artist and the merchant. Mann's novel, Buddenbrooks (1901), traces the declining fortunes of a merchant family much like his own as it gradually loses interest in business but gains an increasing artistic awareness. Mann was only 26 years old when this novel made him one of Germany's leading writers

German) Hardcover – 1954. by Thomas (1875-1955) Mann (Author).

German) Hardcover – 1954.

Thonas Mann THE BLACK SWAN Translated fom the German by WILLARD R. TRASK Alfred A. Knopf New York 1954. Published simultaneously in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Limited. Manufactured in the United States of America.

View on timesmachine. THERE is no more painful task for a critic than to be confronted with a disappointing work by a writer of first magnitude whose performance he has respected and admired for years.

Black Swan by Thomas Mann (1954-06-01) by Thomas Mann and a great . Ex-library book in good condition with typical stamps and markings. The Black Swan Mann, Thomas and Trask, Willard R.

Ex-library book in good condition with typical stamps and markings. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. NOTE Stock photo may not represent the actual book for sale. Seller Inventory mon0000548891. ISBN 10: 0520070097 ISBN 13: 9780520070097.