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16 - Mann in English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2006

Ritchie Robertson
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University of Oxford
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In 1921 Samuel Fischer, Thomas Mann's German publisher, and Alfred A. Knopf reached an agreement whereby Knopf would have exclusive rights for Mann's works in the USA. Mann, aware that his works would be known to a great many of his readers not in the German originals but in the English translations - that in effect the latter would constitute the works of Thomas Mann as far as the English-speaking world was concerned - was in no doubt about the importance of their being well translated: in a letter concerning The Magic Mountain he expressed his wish for 'a translation of a high artistic standard' ('eine künstlerisch hochwertige Übersetzung'). (He could not have foreseen that even greater importance would accrue to the English versions with the Nazi suppression of his works in Germany and his eventual exile in the USA.)

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Print publication year: 2001

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