BUDDENBROOKS THE DECLINE OF A FAMILY
Author(s): MANN THOMAS
Introduction by T. J. Reed; Translation by John E. Woods
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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 From the Hardcover edition."
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. From the Hardcover edition.
General Fields
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- : Random House USA Inc
- : Vintage Books
- : 0.544
- : 28 June 1994
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : MANN THOMAS
- : TP
- : 833.912
- : 731
- : FA