The Baptismal Bowl

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)
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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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