by Thomas Mann · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435007719
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«Las cabezas trocadas» is a short novel by German writer Thomas Mann, published by Edhasa in paperback (158 pages, in Spanish).
Thomas Mann recreates an Indian legend to explore the conflict between spirit and body. Two friends, the intellectual Shridaman and the earthy Nanda, end up with their heads swapped by a miracle: Shridaman's wife, Sita, must decide which of the two bodies is her husband's, while she loves both.
Originally published in 1940 as Die vertauschten Köpfe, this Spanish edition uses the translation by Francisco Ayala.
For readers of classic literature and brief philosophical fables, with an interest in twentieth-century European 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.
