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The Transposed Heads (German: Die vertauschten Köpfe) is a novella by Thomas Mann. It was written in 1940 and published later that year by Bermann-Fischer. The English translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter was published in 1941 by Alfred A. Knopf.
- Anna Jacobson, Thomas Mann
- 1940
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Thomas Mann: The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India. This is not only a short novel by Thomas Mann, it’s also a very unusual novel for him. It’s set in India, in mythic times, so, therefore, it must be true. I’ll let Mann introduce the novel, for he does it much better than I ever could.
Jun 13, 2020 · The Transposed Heads In The Transposed Heads, Mann creates his most abstract and mythic characters. Shridaman, a merchant and the son of a merchant, represents spirit and intellect, while Nanda, a smith and a cowherd, represents body and intuition.
Among the full-length works composed entirely during Mann’s later life, The Transposed Heads could be considered rather distant from his other efforts in time, space, and cultural outlook. Mann...
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Two of the last stories in Thomas Mann's oeuvre, “Die vertauschten Köpfe” (The Transposed Heads), written in the early part of 1940 and “Die Betrogene” (The Black Swan), written from 1952 to 1953, are centered on the problem of love and the “secret of the erotic” (Tb 19 August 1950). One may indeed go so far as to claim that, in a ...
