Name: El Elegido (in Spanish)
SKU: 53188618
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Author: Thomas Mann
ISBN: 9788466354561

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Mann

Publisher

Debolsillo

Collection

Contemporánea

Year

2021

Language

Spanish

Pages

360

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19x12.5 cm

ISBN

9788466354561

ISBN13

9788466354561

Edited in

España

Edition No.

001

Synopsis "El Elegido (in Spanish)"

Una novela histórica sorprendentemente irónica sobre el papa Gregorio V, a quien Thomas Mann imagina marcado por el exceso y el incesto El elegido es la anteúltima novela que Thomas Mann acabó antes de morir en 1955. Basada en fuentes medievales, cuenta con ligereza y hasta humorismo la truculenta historia del papa Gregorio V, un alemán que ocupó el trono de San Pedro a finales del siglo X. Mann imagina una vida llena de episodios atroces e incestuosos, pero su retrato no excluye una fábula ejemplar sobre la caída y la redención. La mezcla de tonos seduce a los lectores desde un principio y, con reglas muy particulares, trasciende cualquier novela histórica al uso. Obra de madurez, redactada tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, esta ficción personalísima alberga una vena satírica que puede ser, también, una enorme ironía sobre el terrible mundo moderno.

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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