Dimensions
130 x 198 x 50mm
As Germany dissolved into the nightmare of Nazism, Thomas Mann was at work on 'Joseph and His Brothers'. This epic recasting of the famous biblical tale is a magnificent reconstruction of the ancient Near East. It stretches back past the days of the patriarchs to the dawn of civilization itself, and constitutes one of Thomas Mann's major achievements.
"What I should like to express," wrote the author while the work was in progress, "is the transformation of Tradition into Present as a timeless mystery, or the experiencing of the self as myth." Many of the conflicts which characterized Mann's earlier work are here resolved in triumphant synthesis. The exile is reunited with his people, the artist with society and reason with the unconscious.
