''Tristan'' is a 1903 novella by German writer

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 novell ...

set in a sanatorium. It contains many references to the myth of

Tristan and Iseult Tristan and Iseult, also known as Tristan and Isolde and other names, is a medieval chivalric romance told in numerous variations since the 12th century. Based on a Celtic legend and possibly other sources, the tale is a tragedy about the illic ...

. The novella alludes in particular to the version presented in Richard Wagner's opera of the same name.

English translations

Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (June 15, 1876 – April 26, 1963) was an American translator and writer, best known for translating almost all of the works of Thomas Mann for their first publication in English. Personal life Helen Tracy Porter was the ...

(1936) * David Luke (1988) *

Joachim Neugroschel Joachim Neugroschel (13 January 1938—23 May 2011) was a Multilingualism, multilingual Translation#Literary translation, literary translator of French language, French, German language, German, Italian language, Italian, Russian language, Russi ...

(1998) * Jefferson S. Chase (1999)

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German etext of ''Tristan''

Novellas by Thomas Mann 1903 German-language novels Novella Modern Arthurian fiction Arthurian literature in German 1903 German novels {{1900s-novel-stub