"Tobias Mindernickel" is an early

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Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novella ...

. Written in 1897, while Mann was living in Rome with his elder brother

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it was first published in January 1898 in the German literary magazine '' Neue Deutsche Rundschau''. It has subsequently appeared in several anthologies of Mann's short stories and novellas.

English translations

* H. T. Lowe-Porter, published in ''Stories of Three Decades'' (Alfred Knopf, 1936) * Joachim Neugroschel, published in ''Death in Venice and Other Stories'' (Penguin, 1998) * Jefferson S. Chase, published in ''Death in Venice and Other Stories'' (Signet, 1999).Lehnert, Herbert (2004)
''A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann''
pp. 38–39. Boydell & Brewer.

References

External links

Complete English translation by Jefferson Chase
on the official website of Penguin Books *Bjorklund, Beth (1978
"Thomas Mann's “Tobias Mindernickel” in Light of Sartre's 'Being-for-Others'"
''Studies in 20th Century Literature'', Vol. 2, Issue 2, Article 2. 1898 short stories Short stories by Thomas Mann Works originally published in German magazines {{1890s-story-stub