Impossible Wishes
Michael Wood: Thomas Mann, 6 February 2003
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann
edited by Ritchie Robertson.
Cambridge, 257 pp., £45.50, November 2001,9780521653107 Show More
edited by Ritchie Robertson.
Cambridge, 257 pp., £45.50, November 2001,
Thomas Mann: A Biography
by Hermann Kurzke, translated by Leslie Willson.
Allen Lane, 582 pp., £30, January 2002,0 7139 9500 9 Show More
by Hermann Kurzke, translated by Leslie Willson.
Allen Lane, 582 pp., £30, January 2002,
“... and the memories it scarcely leaves. As I hope the above quotation illustrates, the translator Leslie Willson has worked wonders with some very difficult passages. There are other splendid successes, such as the rendering of the apparently untranslatable Urkram as ‘primal odds and ends’, and Kurzke’s own energy undoubtedly comes across. It is ... ”
