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The Black Swan Paperback - 1990

by Thomas Mann; Willard R. Trask (Translator); Introduction by Nina Pelikan Straus

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Thomas Mann's bold and disturbing novella, written in 1952, is the feminine counterpart of his masterpiece Death in Venice. Written from the point of view of a woman in what we might now call mid-life crisis, The Black Swan evinces Mann's mastery of psychological analysis and his compelling interest in the intersection of the physical and the spiritual in human behavior. It is startlingly relevant to current discussions of the politics of the body, male inscriptions of the feminine, and discourse about and of women. The new introduction places this dramatic novella in the context of contemporary feminist and literary concerns, bringing it to the attention of a new generation of readers.

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Thomas Mann's bold and disturbing novella, first published in England in 1954, is the feminine counterpart of his masterpiece Death in Venice. Written from the point of view of a woman in what we might now call a mid-life crisis.

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  • Title The Black Swan
  • Author Thomas Mann; Willard R. Trask (Translator); Introduction by Nina Pelikan Straus
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition California Ed
  • Pages 155
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1990-11-12
  • ISBN 9780520070097 / 0520070097
  • Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.54 x 5.34 x 0.39 in (19.15 x 13.56 x 0.99 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 90038167
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Thomas Mann (1875-1955), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, wrote essays as well as some of the great fiction of the twentieth century, including Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Joseph and His Brothers, and Doctor Faustus. Nina Pelikan Straus teaches in the Humanities program at SUNY, Purchase and has published articles on Mann's Dr. Faustus and Kafka's Metamorphis.
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