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Joseph und seine Brüder II: In der Fassung der Großen kommentierten Frankfurter Ausgabe

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Published March 1, 2020

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Thomas Mann

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Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.

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Alles Leben ist Ausfüllung mythischer Form mit Gegenwart

Im dritten Teil dieser besonderen Tetralogie erhält der interessierte Leser einen umfänglichen Eindruck des Landes, der Gesellschaft und der Gepflogenheiten des biblischen Ägypten. In einzigartiger Manier zaubert Thomas Mann aus 22 Zeilen des alten Testaments kunstvoll eine Erzählung von über 6oo Seiten. In Teil vier wird die Huldigung der magischen Zahl „sieben“, welcher in Manns Werk wiederholt Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt wird, auf die Spitze getrieben. Das Besondere an diesem Vierteiler bleibt die Gabe des Autors, eine totgeglaubte Sprache so eindrucksvoll lebendig werden zu lassen und sie in die Form eines zeitlosen Werkes zu gießen.
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