Disorder and Early Sorrow
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Author | Thomas Mann |
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Original title | Unordnung und frühes Leid |
Language | German |
Genre | Novella |
Publisher | S. Fischer Verlag |
Publication date | 1925 (periodical) 1926 (book) |
Publication place | Germany |
Text | Disorder and Early Sorrow at Internet Archive |
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Damion Searls views it as "Mann's best story—it was
Plot summary
The novella is set in one day in Munich in Weimar Germany. The Cornelius family is preparing a party for Ingrid and Bert, Professor Cornelius's children. The family is divided up on the basis of chronology, foreshadowing a central theme of the work, which is the interplay between different generations at a time of dislocating social and economic change. In Lowe-Porter's translation, Ingrid and Bert, both adolescents, are "the big folk"; Professor Cornelius and his wife are "the old folk"; Ellie and Snapper (Lorrie and Biter in Searls' translation), their youngest children, are "the little folk"; and Professor Cornelius's parents, who are only discussed and who do not feature directly in the story, are "the ancients".[7] In Searls' translation, they are, respectively, "the Bigs," "the Littles," "the Elders," and "the Ancients."
Film version
A West German film adaptation Disorder and Early Torment was released in 1977, directed by Franz Seitz.[8]
References
- ^ "Professor Abel Cornelius has two pairs of children; Mann had three pairs—Erika and Klaus, Golo and Monika, Elisabeth and Michael—with the two oldest and two youngest very clearly the basis for the children in the story". Searls, Damion, "Introduction" to Mann, Thomas, New Selected Stories, p. xiii.
- ^ Introduction & Overview of Disorder and Early Sorrow by Thomas Mann. Retrieved 28 June 2014 – via Bookrags.
- ^ Mann, Thomas, Early Sorrow: A Story, London: Martin Secker, 1929. Lowe-Porter's translation was also published as "Disorder and Early Sorrow" in Mann, Thomas, Stories of Three Decades, London: Martin Secker & Warburg, Ltd., 1922. The first American edition of Stories of Three Decades was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1936.
- ^ Mann, Thomas, Early Sorrow, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.
- ^ In Mann, Thomas, New Selected Stories, New York: Liveright Publishing, 2023; Review by Colm Tóibín
- ^ Searls, Damion, "Introduction" to Mann, Thomas, New Selected Stories, p. xiii.
- ^ "Disorder and Early Sorrow". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- ^ "Unordnung und Fruehes Leid (1977)". AllMovie. Retrieved 28 June 2014.