Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany. He was only twenty-five when his first novel, Buddenbrooks, was published. In 1924 The Magic Mountain was published, and, five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948). He died in 1955.
“All the characters in Thomas Mann’s masterpiece come considerably
closer to speaking English in John E. Woods’s version...Woods
captures perfectly the irony and humor.” —New York Times Book
Review
“[Woods’s translation] succeeds in capturing the beautiful cadence
of [Mann’s] ironically elegant prose.” —Washington Post Book
World
“[The Magic Mountain] is one of those works that changed the shape
and possibilities of European literature. It is a masterwork,
unlike any other. It is also, if we learn to read it on its own
terms, a delight, comic and profound, a new form of language, a new
way of seeing.” —from the Introduction by A. S. Byatt
"All the characters in Thomas Mann's masterpiece come considerably
closer to speaking English in John E. Woods's version . . . Woods
captures perfectly the irony and humor." -New York Times Book
Review
"[Woods's translation] succeeds in capturing the beautiful cadence
of [Mann's] ironically elegant prose." -Washington Post Book
World
"[The Magic Mountain] is one of those works that changed the
shape and possibilities of European literature. It is a masterwork,
unlike any other. It is also, if we learn to read it on its own
terms, a delight, comic and profound, a new form of language, a new
way of seeing." -from the new Introduction by A. S. Byatt
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