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carlos_reads: Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann - That time will come. Our prison, so wide and yet so narrow, so suffocatingly full of foul air, will some day open. I mean when the war now raging will have found, one way or the other, its end – and how I shudder at this “one way or the [1/2]
SimonBruni: John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80
Beatric07078421: At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.,Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers,active-life, adulthood, darkness, fulfillment, life, maturity, preparation, self, wasteland,
BooksByKramer: John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80
usaaffiliates: Death News : Translator of Thomas Mann & Arno Schmidt dies at 80.
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saleemkhan_dr: "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." — Thomas Mann
AlfredoeOrtega: "Tolerance is a crime when evil is what’s being tolerated", Thomas Mann
florian14ww: The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann (Cambridge Companions to Literature) SNBWDDO
LoneStarVarsity: District 4-5A tennis: Coronado boys duo, Lubbock-Cooper's Gracie Wood advance to regionals
GZ3d3: I just read the obituary of master translator John Woods. His translations of Thomas Mann's works opened my eyes to the glories of the greatest author of the 20th century.
Just my opinion.
lubbockonline: District 4-5A tennis: Coronado boys duo, Lubbock-Cooper's Gracie Wood advance to regionals
ShaneAParrish: "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
— Thomas Mann
NYTObits: John E. Woods, an award-winning translator of the works of Thomas Mann, one of Germany’s master novelists, and of the lesser-known Arno Schmidt, whose complex fiction has been compared to James Joyce’s, has died at 80.
MeredithEO: Oh no, a man sat across from me on the metro this morning and he reminded me looks wise so much of Thomas Mann in About Fate that I completely fell in love. I love a good public transit crush.
Urch_mann: Russian and Belarusian athlete participation 'works' despite war, says IOC President Thomas Bach
Make_Me_Aware: Dickens: 'If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish'. Thomas Mann: 'Thoughts come clearly while one walks'. JK Rowling: 'There is nothing like a night time stroll to give you ideas'. Rousseau: 'There is something about walking that animates ...
historicwomens: Portrait by Thomas Sully in 1836, of Martha Jefferson Randolph. She married Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. future governor of Virginia, and when her widowed father, Thomas Jefferson, was president, she sometimes lived with him, serving as his hostess and informal First Lady.
ladeuxiemeReed: I am curious because I am wondering how much of my followers are literary, but I am not sure to start reading Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. For that reason wanted to ask what if any of my followers have thoughts about Thomas Mann.
boazrec: Weather permitting, Brown St will be closed to through traffic on Thursday, March 30th. The Brown St. closure will extend from AL 168 to Thomas Ave. In addition the intersection at Brown St. and Mann Ave. will be closed.
ProjectLincoln: Clarence Thomas is compromised.
KuldkeppMart: The German conscience: traumatized, incriminated by the Nazi era; Thomas Mann: pitiless arraignment of the Germanic spirit. The ripest moment of Polish culture: Gombrowicz joyously excoriating ''Polishness.''
yerger224: John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80
costello1002: Marked as to-read: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
GI_NewYork: Our condolences to family and friends of translator John Woods. Not only was he awarded the inaugural Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his masterful Thomas Mann + Arno Schmidt translations in 1996, but he also received the Goethe Medal in 2008.
melanchoartie: A few excerpts from Death in Venice: this is about a pedophilic artist seeing a boy on vacation with his family and stalking him throughout Venice. The writer's—Thomas Mann's—wife said that the fixation the protagonist here has with the boy was actually based on his own behaviors
rc_wisehack: "The fatal thing is that Tolstoy had no irony. It is a miracle that he managed to write as well as he did. Irony in a novel is like the salt in a pea soup. It gives the flavor, the nuance. Without the salt it is insipid."
--Thomas Mann
KungFuShoesSays: "No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself." Thomas Mann
nytimesbooks: John E. Woods was celebrated for translating the works of German writers like Thomas Mann into English. His “nirvana,” he once said, was to capture in English “most of the aesthetic and intellectual charm, delight and beauty of the original.”
DSMWcom: John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80
AngelaS50402916: Whoever wrote the movie juwanna Mann I believe must have been clairvoyant. How did they know that was going to get a Leah Thomas
DAVIDMWANG68852: There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.,Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain,castorp, clever, cleverness, kinds-of, stupid, stupidity,
BookDevon: Good question. Most recent read that has stayed with me is The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. His main character Hans Castorp is multilayered. Beautifully written.
Asuryan12: They burned Hemingway, Freud, Kafka and Thomas Mann you dobber.
JBHalls66: Check out HARDCOVER "THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN" THOMAS MANN 9TH PRINTING MAY 1955
societylivr1984: In today's woke world, Thomas Mann would be Thomas They/them
RubenEndendijk: Thomas Mann 2/7
holdengraber: "Today according to the new time 1/2 8 o'clock. Complete change of scenery […].”
~ Thomas Mann
(March 26, 1941)
politburito: What was up with Thomas Mann and all his kids being gay? Wild
ENGLISHmeigen_: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
- Thomas Mann -
Kasparov63: As for “peace,” recall one of Thomas Mann’s March 1941 BBC radio messages to Germans, warning there could never be real peace under Hitler, win or lose. For England, Hitler, and Germany simply substitute Ukraine, Putin, and Russia.
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FirstComicsNews: The Sunday crew field random questions from Tommy as he uses Poddeck to poses questions. Included in this episode are Thomas Florimonte, Roland Mann, Pete
DSMWcom: John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80
Maraaaks: "War is a cowardly escape from peacetime problems."
Thomas Mann
CandyOlivia7: Peace as Institution to Change Daily Lives of People:
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zenzeromante: you don't get it. me and thomas mann, we are not on speaking terms, and the blood of the walsungs is really Not Great considering the antisemitic bullshit, but god these lines LMAO. give me a break. i cannot
NYCheadshots: John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80
thatpasuht: Thomas Mann, probably.
DSMWcom: John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80
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asymptotejrnl: “The nirvana of what I can do is to capture for an English-speaking reader... most of the aesthetic and intellectual charm, delight and beauty of the original.”
RIP John Woods, award-winning translator of Thomas Mann, Günter Grass, and Arno Schmidt:
klausmann_bot: "Klaus claimed he wrote about Tchaikovsky 'cause he loved his music,even while admitting he was'no Beethoven'(just as Klaus no 'Thomas Mann)
aczielinska: Thomas Mann: pitiless arraignment of the Germanic spirit. The ripest moment of Polish culture: Gombrowicz joyously excoriating ''Polishness.'' Unthinkable for the Russians to excoriate ''Russianness,'' that immaculate essence. Not a Mann, not a Gombrowicz among them.
– Kundera /4
fengler_paul: "The four stars that dominated my sky at this time and to whom I still like to confide myself today shine in undiminished glory: Socrates, Nietzsche, Novalis and Walt Whitman."
"There is no rest until the end."
(Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann) Sergeant in the United States Army
VishweshMasurk: "No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."
-Thomas Mann
AncientWisdomHQ: "No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."
- Thomas Mann
SarcasmLiving: "No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself." — Thomas Mann
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Thouotes: "No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself." — Thomas Mann
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TioluwaneeJoy: John Woods, German American literature translator died at age 80. John E. Woods was an award-winning translator of the works of Thomas Mann.
MrsCommodore: In other news, allowed my husband to get the NY Times back--banned after five pages of transvestite strippers. He just related that the translator of Thomas Mann--Arno Schmidt--has died. "Where else do you get that?"
Ricardokrrion: 5 of 5 stars to Doktor Faustus by Thomas Mann
johnstonglenn: New York Times obit for John Woods, translator of Thomas Mann and Arno Schmidt, who died on February 15:
nytimesworld: John E. Woods was celebrated for translating the works of German writers like Thomas Mann into English. His “nirvana,” he once said, was to capture in English “most of the aesthetic and intellectual charm, delight and beauty of the original.”
MarkRavenhill2: Great novels I’ve read about the theatre :
Bulgakov ‘Black Snow’
Michael Blakemore ‘Next Season’
Thomas Bernhard ‘Woodcutters’
Klaus Mann ‘Mephisto’
Goethe ‘Wilhelm Meister’
Others you’ve read ?
KuldkeppMart: Thomas Mann's radio address to Germans in March 1941:
'The resistance of England, the help it receives from America, are denounced by your leaders as “prolongation of the war”.
smitaprakash: Even while politicians from both sides are getting hot under the collar over the court ruling on Rahul Gandhi in the defamation case, CM Bhagwant Mann in a speech a short while ago said that Mr Modi has a "psychological disorder" because he wants his face on posters everywhere
CandyOlivia7: Peace as Institution to Change Daily Lives of People:
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desmond_attobra: Thomas Partey is quality mann. Top top player.
SaddickAdams: This ranks as one of Thomas Partey’s best games for the Black Stars.
His best was when we went to Congo in 2017 where he scored a hat-trick.
Super today.
EsotericCD: Thomas Friedman rushing breathlessly into the room four months after everyone else finished their pieces on the subject to announce that AI chatbots are getting big is just classic Friedman. "PEOPLE! IT WRITES DOGGEREL NOW!!"
shimulacra: Here are (more) coherent thoughts about Parachute, Brittany Snow's feature directorial debut. It stars Courtney Eaton and Thomas Mann, who have incredibly compelling chemistry. The film doesn't shy away from tackling the messiness of the human experience:
brittanysnow: new/old photos of brittany snow with courtney eaton and thomas mann for SXSW press
testitcles: Praying that Thomas Mann becomes another fav author, for the things I’ve heard I think he could fit my taste. And idk I just feel that he should be one of my faves.
amish_chud: Thomas Mann: I see, too, that to awaken the feelings of the new humanity has not been accomplished by Goethe alone, but that a dose of Whitman is needed.
kylekris1124: "Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul." - Thomas Mann
KYJI HERE TWOstay
brianadelrio: Spain 2015 - Nobel Prize 1929 - Literature - Thomas Mann/Germany maxicard | En venta en Delcampe
HeleneBismarck: I am still getting over the fact that Boris Johnson’s lawyer is called Lord Pannick.
I mean Thomas Mann himself wouldn’t have been able to make this up.
IPorschien: And her dog isn't a squirrel! Not even Mr Thomas Mann!
robbyslaughter: Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. -Thomas Mann
holdengraber: "Half sun and mild. I felt attacked and tired.”
~ Thomas Mann
(March 21, 1920)
YvonneEngineer: Quote of Observation | Thomas Mann
TrainingMindful: “A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.” ~ Thomas Mann
Katheryn97T: What’s everyone reading this week?
Wanting to know more about the kind of music Thomas Mann writes about, I’m diving into The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
tonyprinciotti: Among novels in which the protagonist is a musician, I've always found Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" to be the most compelling. It's a multi-layered retelling of the "Faust" legend that explores the artist's role in society, and the tensions between intellectualism and humanism.
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newstalrocket: The woman across from me on this Q train is actually reading Thomas Mann’s the Magic Mountain
Goth_Zelda: Thomas Mann was hot in Kong: Skull Island. Now he is hot in About Fate.
Litandtheory: Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" (Summary)
o_salinger: 8- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
9- Paradise Lost by John Milton
10- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
11-The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
12-The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer
13- 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
14- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
pot4thepeople: Cairns crime: Thomas Wilhelm Mann pleads guilty on cannabis, gun charges
SamQuinnCBS: And there’s still a TON of talent leftover. Davion, Mann, Isaiah Jackson, Bones Hyland, Cam Thomas, Ayo, Ziaire, the list goes on and on. So many guys who have either already proven themselves or who still have a ton of upside. 2021 was a MONSTER class.
om53296: Everything is politics.,Thomas Mann,Everything ,
5hq0YrXPSuj1R2D: 74th IWPG Peace Mail
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann
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SilverlineComic: Creative Team: Roland Mann, Anthony Pereira, Thomas Florimonte, Sid VenBlu, and Brian Dale
