Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mann's Translator...
Accomplishment. Says Thomas Mann (who was 69 on D-day): "I have often been asked what it actually was that made me turn to this remote and out-of-the-way subject. . . ." Two of his own answers: his reading of Goethe, who once thought of writing the Joseph story himself; Mann's lifelong interest in Egypt...
...brilliant and profound 54-page preface to Joseph and His Brothers (TIME, June 11, 1934), Mann said: "Very deep is the well of the past." Into this well, recorded history goes only a little way, and not truth, but mystery, lies in its fathomless depths. Yet the myths of man are pious abbreviations reaching far deeper than his factual knowledge of events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas, reaches back to catastrophes of vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent...
...past is deep, but, when they have finished the two great characterizations of Joseph the Provider-Old Jacob, and the brilliant, unstable Pharaoh, Amenhotep IV, better known as Ikhnaton, the great liberalizer of Egyptian religion and art, one of the precursors of Christianity, most readers will feel that Mann has made the past's deep waters, at least for a dizzying way down, crystal clear...
...twelve, in school in Germany, Mann was asked the name of the sacred bull of the ancient Egyptians. He answered: "Chapi." The teacher scolded him for volunteering a nonsensical answer, said the right asnwer was Apis. But it was little Thomas who was right...