Joseph and his Brothers
Subtitle: the stories of Jacob, young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the provider
By: Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by John E. Woods
Contributors: Woods, John E.
Series: Everyman's Library #287
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1492
ISBN-13: 9781400040018
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Joseph -- (Son of Jacob) -- Fiction; Bible. -- O.T. -- Genesis -- History of Biblical events -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Other titles: Stories of Jacob, young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the provider
Work titles: Joseph und seine Brüder.
Description: This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s great masterpiece is a major literary event.

Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts–The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider–as a unified narrative, a “mythological novel” of Joseph’s fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the world of patriarchs and pharaohs, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and the universal force of human love in all its beauty, desperation, absurdity, and pain. The result is a brilliant amalgam of humor, emotion, psychological insight, and epic grandeur.

Now the award-winning translator John E. Woods gives us a definitive new English version of <i>Joseph and His Brothers</i> that is worthy of Mann’s achievement, revealing the novel’s exuberant polyphony of ancient and modern voices, a rich music that is by turns elegant, coarse, and sublime.
--front flap
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xvii-xix)
US / CAN edition
Table of contents: title: The stories of Jacob; title: Young Joseph; title: Joseph in Egypt; title: Joseph the provider