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The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann
Published 1951 by Alfred Knopf
First Edition
–ABOUT THE BOOK–
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 has accrued to me through the psychology of the narrative art of seven hundred years", As for The Holy Sinner: his origin is shameful, his life sinful, his atonement ruthless, and his end transfiguration by divine mercy. -From the dust jacket
–CONDITION–
The dust jacket has some wear and tear, but nothing major. The cover underneath has been nicely protected. The pages and text are in fine reading condition. There is a sticker on the front inside cover. Please see photos for more accurate representation of condition.
–ABOUT THE AUTHOR–
Paul Thomas Mann was a 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. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer.
Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of Mann's six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became significant German writers. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he moved to the United States, then returned to Switzerland in 1952. Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur, German literature written in exile by those who opposed the Hitler regime.