Name: El Elegido (in Spanish)
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Author: Thomas Mann
ISBN: 9788435016759

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Mann

Publisher

Edhasa

Topic

clasicos

Collection

pocket

Year

2002

Language

Spanish

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18 x 11 cm

ISBN

9788435016759

ISBN13

9788435016759

Edited in

España

Edition No.

2012

Synopsis "El Elegido (in Spanish)"

El Elegido es una gran novela sobre las bajas pasiones y el arrepentimiento. Thomas Mann se sirve de la figura de Gregorius, el papa Gregorio V, y de la galería de personajes que pulularon a su alrededor para mostrar la podredumbre de la Iglesia de su tiempo, pero sobre todo para explorar el alma humana. Junto a una convincente recreación de la época, lo más atractivo de esta gran novela de Mann son los pensamientos, sentimientos, las dudas y los conflictos personales a los que enfrenta a sus personajes.

Thomas Mann

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Thomas Mann (Lübeck, June 6, 1875 – Zurich, August 12, 1955) was a prominent German writer, novelist, essayist, and social critic, considered one of the great exponents of 20th century literature and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. His work is characterized by a deep analysis of bourgeois life, the psychology of the artist, and the spiritual crisis of modern Europe, drawing inspiration from philosophical and literary currents such as those of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer.

Mann gained international fame with his first novel, Buddenbrooks (1901), a family saga that portrays the decline of a merchant family over four generations, a work for which he received the Nobel. Other key titles in his production include The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg, 1924), an allegory about European society before World War I; Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig, 1912), considered one of his most influential novellas; and Doctor Faustus (1947), which examines German culture in the context of the rise of Nazism.

Thomas Mann's work is renowned for its symbolic richness, irony, psychological depth, and masterful exploration of the dilemmas of European culture, influencing generations of writers and readers around the world.

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