{"title":"Thomas Mann","description":"T. Adorno, Frankfurt School","products":[{"product_id":"death-in-venice-paperback","title":"Death in Venice - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sumptuous new translation of the sublime novella of desire, obsession, and one man's downfall; another classic from the author of \u003ci\u003eTHE MAGIC MOUNTAIN\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Probably the greatest of modern German novelists.\" ― The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the pre-eminent works of modern European literature, this enthralling story of desire, beauty and infatuation follows the erudite, respectable writer Gustav Aschenbach's descent into obsession. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAschenbach has always lived a life of structured routine, but he has begun to be troubled by diminishing creative inspiration from his strict writing schedule. While walking in a cemetery north of Munich, he has a dizzying vision which prompts him to abandon his settled life and travel south to Venice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn checking into his hotel, Aschenbach notices a young Polish boy of perfect, sculptural beauty: Tadzio. As he lingers on at the hotel, Aschenbach falls into an ever-deeper infatuation with the youth, whose curled blond hair and porcelain face fill him with rapture, and even seem to cure his stubborn writer's block. Ignoring whispered warnings of a cholera outbreak in Venice, Aschenbach stays at the hotel and follows Tadzio with increasing obsession, his mind swirling with mad desire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClassical in structure yet roiled by disturbing passion, \u003ci\u003eDeath in Venice\u003c\/i\u003e is an enormously powerful story of one man's undoing. Full of coiled tension and vivid inner conflict, it is one of Thomas Mann's greatest masterpieces, and appears here in a lively new translation by Lesley Chamberlain.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101118206175,"sku":"9781805332688","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RW__E1q7Is9781805332688.webp?v=1781068292"},{"product_id":"the-magic-mountain-hardcover","title":"The Magic Mountain - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this masterpiece of intellectual fiction, Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann takes you to a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community devoted to sickness that becomes a microcosm for Europe's prewar society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung Hans Castorp planned a three-week visit to his tubercular cousin, only to find himself mysteriously drawn to the isolated mountain retreat. As his stay stretches from months to years, Hans falls under the influence of the remarkable residents: the humanist Settembrini, the nihilistic Naphta, and the captivating Clavdia Chauchat. Through their philosophical debates and seductive charisma, Hans's perception of time, identity, and meaning undergoes a profound transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMann's rich symbolism and meditative prose explore the enigmatic nature of time, the seduction of intellectual surrender, and the fragility of Western civilization on the brink of catastrophe. \u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e stands as one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literature-a novel of ideas that continues to mesmerize and challenge readers nearly a century after its original publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition, complete and unabridged, features footnoted translations of the French and Italian passages used in the novel, including the rather erotic conversation in the section \"Walpurgis-Night.\" Newly designed and typeset for easy reading by Waking Lion Press, this edition is printed on acid-free, archival-quality paper for a long life in your personal library.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101135835359,"sku":"9781434105813","price":69.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/FN8oaGJTbK9781434105813.webp?v=1781068328"},{"product_id":"death-in-venice-paperback-1","title":"Death in Venice - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"brilliant . . . perfectly nuanced translation\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) of Thomas Mann's greatest short works \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing his world-famous masterpiece, \"Death in Venice,\" this collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories and novellas reveals his artistic evolution. In a widely acclaimed translation that restores the controversial passages that were censored from the original English version, \"Death in Venice\" tells about a ruinous quest for love and beauty amid degenerating splendor. Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but lonely author, travels to the Queen of the Adriatic in search of an elusive spiritual fulfillment that turns into his erotic doom. Spellbound by a beautiful Polish boy, he finds himself fettered to this hypnotic city of sun-drenched sensuality and eerie physical decay as it gradually succumbs to a secret epidemic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Also included in this volume are eleven other stories by Mann: \"Tonio Kroger,\" \"Gladius Dei,\" \"The Blood of the Walsungs,\" \"The Will for Happiness,\" \"Little Herr Friedmann,\" \"Tobias Mindernickel,\" \"Little Lizzy,\" \"Tristan,\" \"The Starvelings,\" \"The Wunderkind,\" and \"Harsh Hour.\" All of the stories collected here display Mann's inimitable use of irony, his subtle characterizations, and superb, complex plots. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101152514271,"sku":"9780141181738","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/I_sKKMTa8Y9780141181738.webp?v=1781068361"},{"product_id":"the-magic-mountain-paperback","title":"The Magic Mountain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. \"The Magic Mountain\" is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101588197599,"sku":"9780679772873","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/slF7XyHyP99780679772873.webp?v=1781071779"},{"product_id":"the-magic-mountain-paperback-1","title":"The Magic Mountain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e is simply one of the greatest novels ever written.\" - \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. \u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps - a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an \"ordinary young man\" who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mann was a master of this genre, in private life as in his fiction.\" - \u003cem\u003eThe London Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In Mann's work the historic and contemporary retains its outsideness. He is a Wagnerian spellbinder, a mythmaker, but the myth always refers back to the real world.\" - \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mann's sense of vulnerability modifies his temptation to abstraction; his awareness of the tawdry and shameful humanizes his concentration on the very act of art. He is saved by the perverse, by the knowledge that comes from having looked at the lost. For this his greatness, threatened by its own energy, still inspires awe and love.\" - \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e taught me that big ideas have vitality, that intellectual life could make for great storytelling, and that the map of an age could be found in the personalities of the people who lived it, lessons that I carried into the writing of history. But the truth is, I have returned again and again to \u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e because the characters who inhabit it are such delightful company.\" - \u003cem\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003e The Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e] is one of those works that changed the shape and possibilities of European literature. It is a masterwork, unlike any other. It is also, if we learn to read it on its own terms, a delight, comic and profound, a new form of language, a new way of seeing.\" - A. S. Byatt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Long acclaimed as a masterly synthesis of the intellectual history of early 20th-century Europe and for its prescient scrutiny of elements in the German national character that had, and would again, find expression in the calamitous form of the world war.\" - \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Magnificent... a beautiful, feverish account of obsessive love\" - Jonathan Coe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A monumental writer\" - \u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The greatest German novelist of the 20th century\" - \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mann is Germany's outstanding modern classic, a decadent representative of the tradition of Goethe and Schiller. With his famous irony, he was up there with Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud, holding together the modern world with a love of art and imagination to compensate for the emptiness left by social and religious collapse.\" - \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mann's real masterpiece is his sprawling snowbound epic of 1924, \u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e ... The entire work is suffused with a sly and gentle humour, making it an absolute delight to read ... A book I return to every couple of years, \u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e is simply one of the greatest novels ever written.\" - \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101589049567,"sku":"9781922491206","price":37.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/L1YvTHE3ekhQK0gvbFY4a1BoRmlXZz09.webp?v=1781071780"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/thomas-mann.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}