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Thomas Mann's Overcoat

BuchGebunden
412 Seiten
Englisch
Seagull Bookserscheint am06.12.2024
This novel seamlessly blends the intellectual musings of Thomas Mann with a Hungarian folktale exploring the boundaries of reality and fantasy. In this captivating and whimsical novel, the German novelist and critic Thomas Mann is visiting his tailor, Klaus, to be measured for a new overcoat, but his mind is full of thoughts of his new novel and meditations on the state of Europe after World War I. His tailor, though, entraps him in wily dialogue with mysterious claims about angels threading a strand of their hair through all of God´s creations. Mann becomes further entangled with this provocative artisan through a mysterious dream in which he is asked to draft a contract for the Rights of Devils.   At the same time, the impoverished mother of five-year-old Marci Tamás, living in a tiny Hungarian village, struggles to find the little boy a winter coat. Marci has stopped growing, so the coat she finds-belonging to a former circus dwarf-should suffice for life. Only the coat has a life of its own, as Marci soon finds out. That´s not all: he discovers a mysterious little white elephant in the family courtyard, which no one else can see. Determined to save the family´s three piglets from being slaughtered, he enlists this strange creature in a daring collective escape.   Written by one of Hungary´s most audacious literary voices, Thomas Mann´s Overcoat is at once a homage to the great German novelist as well as an Ars Poetica that embraces excess, whimsy, and folk poetry and refuses the strictures of realism.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextThis novel seamlessly blends the intellectual musings of Thomas Mann with a Hungarian folktale exploring the boundaries of reality and fantasy. In this captivating and whimsical novel, the German novelist and critic Thomas Mann is visiting his tailor, Klaus, to be measured for a new overcoat, but his mind is full of thoughts of his new novel and meditations on the state of Europe after World War I. His tailor, though, entraps him in wily dialogue with mysterious claims about angels threading a strand of their hair through all of God´s creations. Mann becomes further entangled with this provocative artisan through a mysterious dream in which he is asked to draft a contract for the Rights of Devils.   At the same time, the impoverished mother of five-year-old Marci Tamás, living in a tiny Hungarian village, struggles to find the little boy a winter coat. Marci has stopped growing, so the coat she finds-belonging to a former circus dwarf-should suffice for life. Only the coat has a life of its own, as Marci soon finds out. That´s not all: he discovers a mysterious little white elephant in the family courtyard, which no one else can see. Determined to save the family´s three piglets from being slaughtered, he enlists this strange creature in a daring collective escape.   Written by one of Hungary´s most audacious literary voices, Thomas Mann´s Overcoat is at once a homage to the great German novelist as well as an Ars Poetica that embraces excess, whimsy, and folk poetry and refuses the strictures of realism.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-80309-410-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum06.12.2024
Seiten412 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht454 g
Artikel-Nr.61426604
Rubriken
GenreRomane Hardcover

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1.Thomas Mann´s Overcoat2.White Mud3.Refugees of Eastern Munich4.The Elephant Library5.A Dwarf´s Leather Coat6.Contract for the Rights of Devils7.The Island of The Dead8.A Shadow Fallen from The Sky/Sky-Fallen Shadow9.The Snobbery of Reality10.Sunbathing Pigs11.Presence-Shadow12.Conversation with Hannibal13.The Book of Future Time14.On the Migration of Souls15.In the Black Elephant16.Helping the Piglets Escape17.The Bell of History18.Autumn Sacrifice19.The Dilemma of Closed Eyes20.In Relation to Grey Snow21.Sliding into An Uncertified Existence22.Faust´s Overcoatmehr

Autor

Writer, poet, and professor of literature and creative writing, István Vörös has published numerous plays, collections of poetry, short story collections, and books of essays. He is a noted translator from Czech, and his own work has so far appeared in more than twenty languages.