H. T. Lowe Porter Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

In addition to Death in Venice , this volume includes "Mario and the Magician," "Disorder and Early Sorrow," "A Man and His Dog," "Felix Krull," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "Tristan," and "Tonio Kröger." These stories, as direct as Thomas Mann's novels are complex, are perfect illustrations of their author's belief that "a story must tell itself." Varying in theme, in style, in tone, each is in its own way characteristic of Mann's prodigious talents. From the high art of the famous title novella ("A story," Mann said, "of death...of the voluptuousness of doom"), to the irony of "Felix Krull," the early story on which he later based his comic novel The Confessions of Felix Krull , they are stunning testimony to the mastery and virtuosity of a literary giant. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter.

'Der Held des Romans, Leverkühn, ist ein außerordentlich stolzer, kühler und kluger Geist, zu klug eigentlich für die Kunst, der aber dennoch vom Drang nach dem Kreativen erfüllt ist und dazu Enthemmungen braucht, die ihm in dem ideellen Rahmen des Buches nur der Böse verschaffen kann. Mit seinem Sündenfall ist auch - gewissermaßen - auf der politischen Ebene des Buches auf die faschistische Intoxikation der Völker angespielt'.