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The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as Told by a Friend. By Thomas Mann. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. trange indeed are the works of Thomas Mann and strange the mind that gives them birth. No writer in this century has won such universal ambition and none has felt himself more worthy of it.
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WHAT Constance Garnett was to Dostoevsky and Scott-Moncrieff to Proust, H. T. Lowe-Porter is to Thomas Mann. (See Page 7.)Mrs. Lowe (Helen Tracy Porter was her name before she married) translated ...
2 giu 1992 · The translation here is by Mann’s original translator, H. T. Lowe-Porter. (There is also a more recent version by John E. Woods which I have not read). Lowe-Porter’s prose is not always the most readable, and at times her tone seems inappropriate.
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Lowe-Porter's translation is 900 pages long; Woods's is 706. This in itself tells you something. Type size isn't a factor: the type of the earlier edition is a point smaller. Lowe-Porter's Magic Mountain is leisurely, stately, and sometimes pompous; Woods's book is snappy, even slangy, brisk and direct. I don't read German so I can't tell which ...
The Buddenbrooks get an upgrade. H.T. Lowe-Porter held the exclusive rights to translate Mann's major works for fifty years. In that time, her translations came under critical attack for being inaccurate, fanciful and clumsy. Yet they couldn't have been all that bad because it was Lowe-Porter's translations that brought recognition of Mann as a ...
9 gen 2022 · (Goethe, Faust (tran. H. T. Lowe-Porter)). Hans Castorp is a young man on a threshold of a very successful career of an engineer at a prestigious shipping firm in Germany when he enters an international sanatorium Berghof in the picturesque Swiss Alps for three weeks and only to support Joachim Ziemssen, his sick cousin, and keep him company.
