Joseph und seine Brüder
About this book
This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s great masterpiece is a major literary event. Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts–The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider–as a unified narrative, a “mythological novel” of Joseph’s fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the world of patriarchs and pharaohs, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and the universal force of human love in all its beauty, desperation, absurdity, and pain. The result is a brilliant amalgam of humor, emotion, psychological insight, and epic grandeur. Now the award-winning translator John E. Woods gives us a definitive new English version of Joseph and His Brothers that is worthy of Mann’s achievement, revealing the novel’s exuberant polyphony of ancient and modern voices, a rich music that is by turns elegant, coarse, and sublime. --front flap
Reader Profile
3.9/5 · 2 readers · 1207 pages · ≈ 22 h 21 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read Joseph und seine Brüder?
About ≈ 22 h 21 m — 1207 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Joseph und seine Brüder?
1207 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Joseph und seine Brüder?
It sits on the Christian Fiction, Fiction shelves.
Is Joseph und seine Brüder in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who are the main characters in Joseph und seine Brüder?
The main characters include Joseph (Son of Jacob), Jacob (Biblical patriarch), Joseph n of Jacob) --.
Who wrote Joseph und seine Brüder?
Thomas Mann.