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Joseph and His Brothers
Joseph and His Brothers
Author: Thomas Mann
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 Pr...  more »–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.
ISBN-13: 9781400040018
ISBN-10: 1400040019
Publication Date: 5/10/2005
Pages: 1,536
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Publisher: Everyman's Library
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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