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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. It was one of Mann's last novellas, followed only by The Tables of the Law in 1944 and The Black Swan ...
- Anna Jacobson, Thomas Mann
- 1940
The extinction of one’s existence as a resolution of the dilemmas posed here is an expedient first suggested by Shridaman’s religious learning. His deliberations on this concern, as guided by ...
The original source for The Transposed Heads is a Sanskrit legend translated by the Indologist Heinrich Robert Zimmer, to whom Mann dedicated the American edition of this work. Although he took ...
The goddess is intent on exacting her due in blood and sacrifice. Accordingly, and in a stroke that admittedly seems improbably difficult to carry out, Shridaman takes up a sword and in one ...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 12, 1959 - Fiction - 128 pages. From a Nobel Prize for Literature winner and one of the most iconic German writers of the 20th century, Transposed Heads is a beautiful story that explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend, Mann’s writes about ...
