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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 flapMention Books As 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) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder #1-4)
Ratings: 4.43 From 1531 Users | 125 ReviewsJudgment Appertaining To Books Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder #1-4)
The game metaphor at the end is both excellent and baffling. Its incredible that one can dismiss and forgive so much hate and rancor and revenge just by calling it a game, and its possible only from the POV of someone who seems to exist outside time, so that 13 years here, 7 years there, 3 days in a pit, are all irrelevant, nothing, like Athenas clueless response to Odysseus accusation that she had abandoned him.And maybe thats how enmity can be set aside at all: not confronted, but dismissed.I don't think I've ever read 1500 pages this quickly. The remarkable thing is that it was so easy. The writing pulled me along with a combination of great storytelling, philosophy, history, psychology, humor, character study, politics--basically everything I love mixed together perfectly. At times it felt like an adventure story. At other times like reading the encyclopedia if the encyclopedia were fun to read. Still other times I was moved to tears, my heart aching for these characters and
This is one of the most wonderfull books ever writen, no doubt. The story of the bible is the point of departure for a beautiful analysis of humanity, full of humour and grandeur. The book is big and one has to read it carefully to enjoy it completely. Every sentence is a jewel, every passage is full of simple life elements that wonder and links us to the past to a point were we conclude that being human is a universal experience, independent of time and space. This is all blended in with a
"Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?"With this beginning Thomas Mann creates a monumental novel based on the story of Joseph in Genesis. By the time you have read more than two hundred pages and Joseph is yet to be born you begin to realize just how monumental this novel will be. The good news is that it is worth the time and effort. Mann sets the story in the 14th century BC and makes Akhenaten the pharaoh who makes Joseph his vice-regent. A dominant topic of
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...
Mann considered this to be his magnum opus, and, having reached the end of the final book, it's not hard to see why. In a sense, almost everything he ever tried to do is contained in these 1500 pages: The history a family, the decline and recalibration of civilisation, the obscurement of mythology, the maturation of the dreamer/artist, you fill in the rest. The novel is an absolute wunderkammer. Sometimes it moves at a breathtaking pace, but most often you are encouraged to just stop and look
★★★★★★What a truly amazing accomplishment this is, and as I say that it occurs to me that I am referring not just to Mann's writing it, but to my finishing reading it. 1492 pages + introductions, that's my high water mark, the biggest single book I've ever read by a considerable margin. A daunting book, no doubt. It's also beautiful, erudite, enthralling, one of the best books I've read in my lifetime.Okay, so this is one big damn book. Intimidating, right? A turgid Teutonic trudge through the
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