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Discussion of themes and motifs in Thomas Mann's The Transposed Heads. eNotes critical analyses help you gain a deeper understanding of The Transposed Heads so you can excel on your...
The Transposed Heads (‹See Tfd› 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
Complete summary of Thomas Mann's The Transposed Heads. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Transposed Heads.
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 ...
- Jens Rieckmann
- 2004
Jun 13, 2020 · Significant in these last major works of short fiction are two characteristics of Mann’s work. The first is one of adapting mythology in new contexts, as he does in the novella The Transposed Heads, an adaptation of a Hindu legend about seeking harmony between the inner and outer self.
Yet The Transposed Heads stands apart from Mann’s other works by virtue of its odd choice of subject matter; while it has not been considered a major effort (indeed Mann himself did not regard...
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The novella, 'The Transposed Heads' is Thomas Mann's philosophical version of an Indian legend about the conflict between mind and body. In a twinned paroxysm, two friends, the intellectual Shridaman and the earthy Nanda, behead themselves.
