Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875–August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, 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.
The modest Thomas Mann boom, begun with the recent publication (by New Directions) of his early stories, continues with this fine new English translation of the author's last great novel, first published in 1948. A work written in old age and suffused with Mann's moral despair over his country's complacent embrace of Nazism, Doctor Faustus unrelentingly details the rise and fall of Adrian Leverkhn, a gifted musician (modeled, as Mann admitted, on modernist innovator Arnold Schoenberg) who effectively sells his soul to the devil for a generation of renown as the greatest living composer. Woods's vigorous translation works brilliantly on two counts: It catches both the logic and the music of Mann's intricate mandarin sentences (if one reads closely, the rewards are great); and it gives the novel's narrator (``Adrian's intimate from his hometown'') a truly distinctive voice, making him more of an involved character than a rhetorical device. Mann's most Dostoevskyan novel should, in this splendid new version, speak more powerfully than ever to contemporary readers.
早年,读《魔山》的经验告诉我,托马斯•曼的作品是需要储备了足够知识才能去读的。最新出版的全译本《浮士德博士》这本书比之《魔山》,它不仅充满了各种各样令读者好奇和探究的影射,还能让读者感受到哲学的晦涩、音乐理论的艰深的同时,发现自然科学与人文科学结合的美妙...
評分早年,读《魔山》的经验告诉我,托马斯•曼的作品是需要储备了足够知识才能去读的。最新出版的全译本《浮士德博士》这本书比之《魔山》,它不仅充满了各种各样令读者好奇和探究的影射,还能让读者感受到哲学的晦涩、音乐理论的艰深的同时,发现自然科学与人文科学结合的美妙...
評分花了一周时间,终于看完了。属于大师级的作品。 托马斯曼就是德语文学中的一棵参天大树,26岁即发表后来为他赢得诺奖的《布登勃洛克一家》。不管是谁,若想要爬到这棵大树的顶峰确是不太容易。 《浮士德博士》的故事情节就不多说了,亮点在后面艾肖的去世和结尾部分。 不过感觉...
評分 評分早年,读《魔山》的经验告诉我,托马斯•曼的作品是需要储备了足够知识才能去读的。最新出版的全译本《浮士德博士》这本书比之《魔山》,它不仅充满了各种各样令读者好奇和探究的影射,还能让读者感受到哲学的晦涩、音乐理论的艰深的同时,发现自然科学与人文科学结合的美妙...
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