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| Title | : | Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder #1-4) |
| Author | : | Thomas Mann |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Everyman's Library #287 (US / CAN) |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1492 pages |
| Published | : | May 10th 2005 by Everyman's Library (Knopf) (first published 1943) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. European Literature. German Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature |
Thomas Mann
Hardcover | Pages: 1492 pages Rating: 4.43 | 1531 Users | 125 Reviews
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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. --front flapDefine Books During Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder #1-4)
| Original Title: | Joseph und seine Brüder |
| ISBN: | 1400040019 (ISBN13: 9781400040018) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/107291/joseph-and-his-brothers-by-thomas-mann/9781400040018/ |
| Series: | Joseph und seine Brüder #1-4 |
| Characters: | Joseph, son of Jacob (Bible), Jacob (Bible) |
| Literary Awards: | Κρατικό Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης for Μετάφραση Έργου Ξένης Λογοτεχνίας στην Ελληνική Γλώσσα (2005) |
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Ratings: 4.43 From 1531 Users | 125 ReviewsNotice Epithetical Books Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder #1-4)
Harold Bloom said something to the effect that our capacity to be imaginatively involved in a book is never as great as it is in childhood. I yearn to be as transported as I was listening to my father reading The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings when I was a lad. This book -- I read the Lowe-Porter translation -- is probably the closest I have come in my adult years. It takes the story of Joseph and makes it seem as real and as natural as if it were happening in front of you. This"And so ends this invention of God, this beautiful story of Joseph and his brothers."oh come on
Saw this big fat Everyman hardcover at the store yesterday and coveted it, but it was $42 or $45 or something like that. With tax, that will be well nigh on $50. Maybe I should just bite the bullet and get it...think of it as four novels...
Found the third volume at home. Started to read out of curiosity. Got addicted pretty fast. Mann is a genius. He captures in an incredibly credible way the atmosphere of the egyptean and archaic jewish societies.The fact that I knew the story did not make me want to read less of it but rather the opposite. In fact I soon discovered that I was reading not to find out what's happening, but rather to find out how things happened... I must mention that I am reading a romanian translation which is so
This is some dense prose. Mann really gives his language a biblical feel, though still modernized. It's really thick and can get a little exhausting, but it is also extremely beautiful language. It's an enthralling retelling. Although, I thought this was a story I was pretty familiar with and I come to find out some of what was new to me wasn't even stuff Mann made up. Mann does a great job of seamlessly integrating some of his invention with that of the bible. You could have a game show "Is it
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence Genesis 50:25 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you Exodus 13:19 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of
Having developed a taste for Thomas Mann and a hobby reading modern reworkings of biblical themes, I was quite pleased to obtain a copy of the tetrology, Joseph and His Brothers, during the last semester in college. I was even more pleased during the reading of it.Mann wrote Joseph during the rise of Nazism in his homeland, finishing it during his North American exile. One wonders how much the political experiences of his life during this period influenced the book with its themes of rejection,
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