mann thomas collected stories
Mann Thomas Collected Stories
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.
6330 Руб.
Thomas Dylan Collected Stories
This unique edition presents the complete span of Thomas' short stories, from his urgent hallucinatory visions of the dark forces beneath the surface of Welsh life to the inimitable comedy of his later autobiographical writings. With Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and Adventures in the Skin Trade, Thomas found a new voice for his irreverent memories of lust and bravado in south-west Wales and London, leading to a sequence of classic evocations of childhood magic and the follies of adult life.
2256 Руб.
Mann Thomas Death In Venice And Other Stories
'A story of the voluptuousness of doom' Thomas Mann Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city.
2353 Руб.
Mann Thomas Mario and The Magician and other stories
Mann's short stories explore his abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits. In 'A Man and his Dog', domestic tempests are symbols of the muddle of humanity. In 'The Black Swan', the demands of intellect clash with physical desires. And in 'Mario and the Magician' a young family on holiday in Italy encounters a creepy entertainer: Cipolla, a hypnotist with a fascist-like will to control his audience. Written between 1918 and 1953, this collection shows the literary development of one of Germany's most important writers.
2664 Руб.
Sontag Susan Stories. Collected Stories
The complete collected short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant and influential writers of the twentieth century Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories: fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she couldn't address in essay form. These short fictions are allegories, parables, autobiographical vignettes, each capturing an authentic fragment of life, dramatizing Sontag's private griefs and fears. Stories collects all of Sontag's short fiction for the first time. This astonishingly versatile collection showcases its peerless writer at the height of her powers. For any Sontag fan, it is an unmissable testament to her creative achievements.
3486 Руб.
Mann Thomas Buddenbrooks
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.
4007 Руб.
Mann Thomas Buddenbrooks
First published in 1901, when Thomas Mann was only twenty-five, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to life that it scandalized the author's former neighbours in his native Lubeck. As he charts the Buddenbrooks' decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence and madness, Mann ushers the reader into a world of vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip and earthy humour.
7078 Руб.
Mann Thomas Buddenbrooks
"Es ist eine hervorragende Arbeit, redlich, positiv und reich", urteilte S. Fischers Lektor Moritz Heimann nach der Lekture des Manuskripts uber Thomas Manns ersten Roman, seinen wohl am meisten gelesenen, am meisten verbreiteten. 'Verfall einer Familie' - sein Untertitel scheint ihn einzureihen in eine bestimmte Gattung, aber "der Zug zum Satirischen und Grottesken", der darin steckt, hebt ihn zugleich davon ab, gibt ihm einen eigenen Charakter, eigene Wirkung bis in die Gegenwart. Thomas Mann erzahlt nur wenig verschlusselt die Geschichte seiner Familie und ihrer Stellung in der Vaterstadt Lubeck, soweit er sie nachvollziehen, in Einzelheiten uberblicken konnte, ja sogar noch miterlebt hat. Verwandte, Honoratioren und markante Personlichkeiten seiner Jugend werden integriert. Den meisten Raum nimmt das Leben Thomas Buddenbrooks ein, "ein modernes Heldenleben"; sein Sohn Hanno wird einen langen Strich unter die Genealogie der Familie setzen und sich rechtfertigen mit den Worten: "Ich glaubte ... ich glaubte ... es kame nichts mehr ..." In denmehr als hundert Jahren seit seinem ersten Erscheinen hat der Roman unzahlige Menschen in seinen Bann gezogen und hat bis heute nichts an Charme und Aktualitat eingebu?t.
3579 Руб.
Mann Thomas Novellen
Творчество немецкого писателя Томаса Манна, рассказы которого предлагаются читателям в этой книге, хорошо знакомо каждому, интересующемуся немецкой литературой XX века. Как правило, его знают по романам, например по "Будденброкам" или "Волшебной горе". Гораздо менее известны его рассказы, которые имеют для творчества писателя не меньшее значение. В этой книге предлагаются читателям три рассказа Т.Манна, написанные им в разные периоды жизни: "Тристан" - 1903 год, "Смерть в Венеции" - 1912 год и, наконец, "Марио и волшебник" - 1930 год. Все три имеют центральной темой крайне важную для автора проблему - взаимоотношения художника и буржуа, толпы, то есть связь искусства и реальной жизни. Все три рассказа дают богатейший материал не только для наслаждения мастерством автора при их чтении, но и для разнообразных дискуссий на темы философские, искусствоведческие, литературные, психологические и т. д. Работать над рассказами Т.Манна рекомендуется в старших классах гимназий, специализированных школ, в средних и высших учебных заведениях. Книга снабжена подробным комментарием и словарем. Каждый рассказ предваряется критическим высказыванием о нем известных литературоведов.
332 Руб.
Mann Thomas Buddenbrooks
Verfall einer Familie »Es ist eine hervorragende Arbeit, redlich, positiv und reich«, urteilte S. Fischers Lektor Moritz Heimann nach der Lekture des Manuskripts uber Thomas Manns, ersten Roman, seinen wohl am meisten gelesenen, am meisten verbreiteten. ›Verfall einer Familie‹ - sein Untertitel scheint ihn einzureihen in eine bestimmte Gattung, aber »der Zug zum Satirischen und Grottesken«, der darin steckt, hebt ihn zugleich davon ab, gibt ihm einen eigenen Charakter, eigene Wirkung bis in die Gegenwart. Thomas Mann erzahlt nur wenig verschlusselt die Geschichte seiner Familie und ihrer Stellung in der Vaterstadt Lubeck, soweit er sie nachvollziehen, in Einzelheiten uberblicken konnte, ja sogar noch miterlebt hat. Verwandte, Honoratioren und markante Personlichkeiten seiner Jugend werden integriert. Den meisten Raum nimmt das Leben Thomas Buddenbrooks ein - »ein modernes Heldenleben«; sein Sohn Hanno wird einen langen Strich unter die Genealogie der Familie setzen und sich rechtfertigen mit den Worten: »Ich glaubte... ich glaubte ... es kame nichts mehr...« In den mehr als hundert Jahren seit seinem ersten Erscheinen hat der Roman unzahlige Menschen in seinen Bann gezogen und hat bis heute nichts an Charme und Aktualitat eingebu?t.
4476 Руб.
Mann Thomas Buddenbrooks
Verfall einer Familie »Buddenbrooks« erschien 1901 und war Thomas Manns erster Roman. Bis heute zahlt die bewegende Geschichte der Kaufmannsfamilie aus Lubeck zu den meistgelesenen Klassikern der deutschen Literatur.
3806 Руб.
Mann Thomas Goethe
Goethe als Nationalschriftsteller und Weltliterat, als Reprasentant seiner Zeit und als »Liebling der Menschheit«. Fur Thomas Mann hatte er eine unuberschatzbare Anziehungskraft und Vorbildfunktion, auch wenn er sich erst in seinen letzten drei Lebensjahrzehnten mit dem Dichterfursten aus Weimar offentlich auseinandergesetzt hat. In diesen drei Jahrzehnten hat Thomas Mann – meist als Einleitungen oder Festreden konzipiert – uber zehn bedeutende Essays zu Goethe verfasst, die in diesem Band gesammelt sind und von Yahya Elsaghe und Hanspeter Affolter ausfuhrlich erlautert werden.
2238 Руб.
Bowen Elizabeth Collected Stories
Celebrated for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day and The Death of the Heart, Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. N. WILSON Throughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson affirms in his introduction, that 'the instinctive artist is there at the very heart of her work'.
3062 Руб.
Yates Richard Collected Stories
Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour.
3387 Руб.
Galloway Janice Collected Stories
Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It - this collection presents some of the best known and most loved works by one of Scotland's 'most gifted and original writers' (Times Literary Supplement). Each sharply observed, savagely accurate and brilliantly realised - the stories offer revelatory glimpses into everyday lives - from an unwelcome act of kindness at a bus stop, an evening walk across a London bridge, a welcome but uncomfortable summer break to a brutal lesson in trust. Here also are unflinching portrayals of relationships: the struggle to love against the odds, the overpowering yearning to communicate, and the extraordinary epiphanies where the world falls away leaving only the lovers. These are painstakingly crafted stories: engaging, funny and terrifyingly true, from a master of the form.
2862 Руб.
Cheever John Collected Stories
This outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the last century. Stories of love and of squalor, they include masterpieces such as 'The Swimmer' and 'Goodbye, My Brother' and date from the time of his honourable discharge from the Army at the end of the Second World War.
4335 Руб.