Tristan (novella)

Tristan (novella)

Infobox Book
name = Tristan
title_orig = Tristan
author = Thomas Mann
country = Germany
language = German
genre = Novella
publisher = Reclam
release_date = 1903
oclc = 4764708

"Tristan" is a 1903 novella by German writer Thomas Mann. It contains many references to the myth of Tristan and Iseult. The novella alludes in particular to the version presented in Richard Wagner's opera of the same name. As such, it can be seen as an ironic paraphrase, juxtaposing the romantic heroism of Wagner's characters with their essentially flawed counterparts in the novellaFact|date=April 2007.

External links

*Project Gutenberg's [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13810 German etext of "Tristan"]


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