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The Baptismal Bowl

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By Susan Bernofsky | April 23, 2021
Sunset over the Alps, the setting of Thomas Mann's famous novel (Tormod Ulsberg, Flickr/tormodspictures)
Sunset over the Alps, the setting of Thomas Mann's famous novel (Tormod Ulsberg, Flickr/tormodspictures)

Susan Bernofsky directs the literary translation program at Columbia and is the author of a forthcoming biography of Robert Walser (Clairvoyant of the Small  ). She has translated the work of many German writers, both modernist and contemporary, including Walser, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, and Jenny Erpenbeck. Her latest project is a new version of Thomas […]

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Susan Bernofsky directs the literary translation program at Columbia and is the author of a forthcoming biography of Robert Walser (Clairvoyant of the Small  ). Her latest project is a new version of Thomas Mann’s masterpiece, The Magic Mountain.

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