Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a classic of modern literature. It is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor. In its immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, buddenbrooks surpasses all other modern family chronicles. With remarkable fidelity to the original German text, this superb translation emphasizes the magnificent scale of Mann’s achievement in this riveting, tragic novel.
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Death in Venice tells how Gustave von Aschenbach, a writer utterly absorbed in his work, arrives in Venice as a result of a 'youthfully ardent thirst for distant scenes,' and meets there a young boy by whose beauty he becomes obsessed. His pitiful pursuit of the object of his abnormal affection and its inevitable and pathetic climax is told here with the particular skill the author has for this shorter form of fiction. (blurb) Em A Morte em Veneza, Thomas Mann apresenta uma escrita complexa e profunda, onde quase cada parágrafo pode ter várias leituras. Em contraponto, o enredo é praticamente inexistente: um homem de meia-idade viaja até Veneza, apaixona-se platonicamente por um jovem rapaz polaco extremamente atraente e morre sem sequer ter trocado uma palavra com ele.
Negli anni '60 il teatro di Brecht conosce una stagione di particolare fortuna, grazie anche alle memorabili regie di Giorgio Strehler per il Piccolo Teatro di Milano. Dopo una lunga parentesi in cui sembrava dimenticato, il teatro di Brecht è ora al centro di nuove letture e interpretazioni. La ricorrenza del centenario della nascita offre l'occasione di un bilancio distaccato, cui possono concorrere il nuovo saggio introduttivo che Cesare Cases ha steso appositamente per questa edizione, e l'ampio apparato informativo di schede e di note desunto dall'edizione critica, pubblicata in Germania a cura di Helmut Riediger
Vita di Martin Lutero
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Der Verlust der Totalität
- 319 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Mit diesem Buch kann einer der eigenwilligsten Denker Italiens endlich entdeckt werden: Cesare Cases. Das Leben des „critico militante“, der als Kind liberaler Juden in Norditalien aufwuchs, war geprägt von den Katastrophen, aber auch den Hoffnungen des vergangenen Jahrhunderts: von Faschismus und Emigration, der Utopie des Kommunismus und dem Trauma des Stalinismus bis zur neuen Linken. Mit Ironie, Nachdenklichkeit, zuweilen auch Strenge hat Cases die kulturellen Debatten seines Landes begleitet. Und er hat als Germanist das Publikum in Italien mit vielen Autoren der deutschsprachigen Literatur und Philosophie vertraut gemacht.