MANN, THOMAS (1875-1955)
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Description:German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.
FIRST EDITION BOOK: The Holy Sinner: A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. Stated First Edition. Hardbound, 336 pgs. A Book of the Month Club Selection. Original dust jacket with BroDart cover. Boards and interior fresh. Classify as very good to fine.
“This is, perhaps, Mann’s most fascinating story. It is the retelling, elaborated as only he could elaborate it, of a medieval legend ‘of the exceeding mercy of God and the birth of the blessed Pope Gregory.’ Mann has kept as closely to the outward plot of this old, old story as he kept to the Bible version of the story of Joseph, but in his elaboration of it he has ‘used all the techniques which had accrued to me through the psychology and the marrative art of seven hundred years.’ As for The Holy Sinner: his origin is shameful, his life sinful, his atonement ruthless, and his end is transfiguration by divine mercy.”