Chosen By Nicole
September 2007 For Discussion October 2007
Thomas Mann Wikipedia
Review
In loving, ironic, and sympathetic detail, Mann portrays several generations of a merchant family who belong to the bourgeois aristocracy in Lubeck, tracking them from high point to decline. While the author himself helped Lowe-Porter in the authorized English translation (1938), Woods simply has a better ear for dialog and for smoothing Mann's German syntax into a more naturally flowing English one. He is even so bold as to tackle puns that Lowe-Porter pretended weren't there.
Score
Carol: 5.5/10
Nicole: 7.0/10
Average Score: 6.3/10
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