Young Joseph

by Thomas Mann

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Historien om den purunge Josef, begavet og selvoptaget, og hans konfliktfyldte forhold til brødrene, der resulterer i, at de sælger ham til nogle købmænd, som bringer ham til Egypten.

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Ein langwieriges, umständliches, stellenweise schwer zu ertragendes Buch.
Ich habe über ein halbes Jahr für die Lektüre gebraucht, mit immer wieder anderen Büchern zwischendurch. Manns berühmte Langatmigkeit schwingt sich hier zu besonderen Höhen auf, alles wird betrachtet, gewendet und ganz langsam erzählt. Vor allem in der wörtlichen Rede ist die Ausschweifung stellenweise fast unerträglich, zu aufgesetzt, zu darstellerisch, zu künstlich. Man mag in früheren Zeiten so gesprochen haben, Genuss beim Lesen hat es mir nicht verschafft.
Hinzu kommt, dass die Hautperson Joseph über weite Strecken des Buches extrem unsympathisch dargestellt wird. Ein selbstverliebter Jüngling, egoistisch, prahlerisch, Narzisst, der kein Interesse show more an den Befindlichkeiten Anderer hat – das führt dem Leser ganz wunderbar die eigentlichen Tiefen dieser biblischen Geschichte vor Augen, aber es ist auch ein ständiges Bombardement mit Widerwärtigkeiten.
Der Anfang mit seinen mystischen Spekulationen ist sehr faszinierend, und es gelingt Mann durchaus, dass man Joseph gegenüber trotz allem Sympathien empfindet. Die Gelegenheiten zur Fremdscham sind für meinen Geschmack aber zu zahlreich.
Hochstehende Literatur, faszinierende Neuerzählung der bekannten biblischen Geschichte. Viel Spaß gemacht hat es aber leider nicht.
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Thomas Mann considerou esta monumental narrativa da história bíblica de José como a sua magnum opus. Concebeu-a em quatro partes – As Histórias de Jaacob, "O Jovem José", José no Egito e José, o Provedor – como uma narrativa unificada, um «romance mitológico» da queda de José na escravidão e da sua ascensão a senhor do Egito.

Baseado num profundo estudo da História, e utilizando detalhes pródigos e convincentes, Mann evoca o mundo mítico dos patriarcas e dos faraós, as antigas civilizações do Egito, da Mesopotâmia e da Palestina – com as suas divindades e rituais religiosos –, e a força universal do amor humano em toda a sua beleza, desespero, absurdo e dor. O resultado é uma brilhante amálgama de ironia, show more humor, emoção, perceção psicológica e grandeza épica. show less
Nov 8, 2020Portuguese (Portugal)
Der zweite Teil ist um Vieles besser als der erste Band.

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Thomas Mann was born into a well-to-do upper class family in Lubeck, Germany. His mother was a talented musician and his father a successful merchant. From this background, Mann derived one of his dominant themes, the clash of views between the artist and the merchant. Mann's novel, Buddenbrooks (1901), traces the declining fortunes of a merchant show more family much like his own as it gradually loses interest in business but gains an increasing artistic awareness. Mann was only 26 years old when this novel made him one of Germany's leading writers. Mann went on to write The Magic Mountain (1924), in which he studies the isolated world of the tuberculosis sanitarium. The novel was based on his wife's confinement in such an institution. Doctor Faustus (1947), his masterpiece, describes the life of a composer who sells his soul to the devil as a price for musical genius. Mann is also well known for Death in Venice (1912) and Mario the Magician (1930), both of which portray the tensions and disturbances in the lives of artists. His last unfinished work is The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954), a brilliantly ironic story about a nineteenth-century swindler. An avowed anti-Nazi, Mann left Germany and lived in the United States during World War II. He returned to Switzerland after the war and became a celebrated literary figure in both East and West Germany. In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
Young Joseph
Original title
Der junge Joseph
Original publication date
1934 (1st edition in German) (1st edition in German); 1980 (Réédition française, L'imaginaire, Gallimard) ( | é | dition franç | aise, L'imaginaire, Gallimard)
People/Characters
Joseph
First words*
Da heisst es nun: Joseph war siebzehn Jahre alt, da er ein Hirte des Viehs ward mit seinen Brüdern; und der Knabe war bei den Kindern Bilha's und Silpa's, den Weibern seines Vaters.
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Du wirst sehr alt werden müssen, um zu erfahren, dass, ausgleichshalber, Trug und Wahn war auch dein bitterstes Leid.
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German
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General Fiction, Fiction and Literature, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
833.91Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesGerman fiction1900-1900-1990
LCC
PT2625 .A44Language and LiteratureGerman, Dutch and Scandinavian literaturesGerman literatureIndividual authors or works1860/70-1960

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