by Thomas Mann · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435016759
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«El elegido» is the historical novel by Thomas Mann, published by Edhasa in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is based on the legend of Gregorius, a 10th-century German who came to occupy the papal throne as Gregory V and whose story is marked by incest and sin. Thomas Mann explores guilt, repentance and redemption, drawing on a medieval poem and a French hagiography, with irreverent humor and a baroque poetic tone.
Spanish edition translated by Anna Rossell, in Edhasa's Pocket collection (no. 175). The German original, «Der Erwählte», dates from 1951; Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.
For readers of historical fiction and 20th-century classic literature, as well as followers of Thomas Mann's narrative.
Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modern versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.
