by Thomas Mann · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435009034
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«Las cabezas trocadas» is the novel by Thomas Mann, published by Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana in hardcover (144 pages, in Spanish).
Two young friends, Nanda and Chridaman, love the beautiful Sita. Through the intervention of a Hindu deity, they exchange their heads, for she values the spirit of one and the body of the other, but the swap does not resolve their conflict. In the form of an Indian legend, the novel reflects on the tensions between art and life.
Original title: «Die vertauschten Köpfe. Eine indische Legende», published in 1940. Spanish edition with translation and preface by Francisco Ayala.
Recommended for readers of classic fiction and for those seeking a brief but intense sample of Thomas Mann.
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.
