Thomas Mann
Joseph und seine Brüder.
Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1965. 1354 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is bound in gray cloth, with gilt-lettered black spine label. Facsimile of author's signature is stamped in gold on front cover. Book shows moderate shelfwear, with very light foxing to edges of text block. Binding is firm. Minor foxing appears on front flyleaf. Interior is otherwise clean and bright.
"Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts- "Die Geschichten Jaakobs", "Der junge Joseph", "Joseph in Agypten", "Joseph, der Ernährer"-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."