Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family - Rilegato

Mann, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 0679419942 ISBN 13: 9780679419945

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1993

Riassunto

A new translation of Mann's classic story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany captures the triumphs and tragedies, successes and failures, relationships, loves, and ordinary events of middle-class life.

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Recensione:

“A remarkable achievement . . . In Woods’s sparkling translation, the reader encounters a work that is closer in style, vocabulary, idiom, and tone to the original.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Wonderfully fresh and elegant . . . Essential reading for anyone who wishes to enter Mann’s fictional universe.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES

L'autore:

John E. Woods is the distinguished translator of many books -- most notably Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold, for which he won both the American Book Award for translation and the PEN Translation Prize; Patrick Suskind's Perfume, for which he again won the PEN Translation Prize in 1987; Mr. Suskind's The Pigeon and Mr. Summer's Story; Doris Dorrie's Love, Pain, and the Whole Damn Thing and What Do You Want from Me?; and Libuse Monikova's The Facade. Mr. Woods lives in San Diego and is currently at work on a translation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679419942
• ISBN 13: 9780679419945
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 648