Josip i njegova braća I: Jakovljeve povijesti

The tetralogy was written from 1926 to 1943, and published from 1933 to 1943. Now it is available again in its entirety, in a new, masterful translation by Milan Soklić. A work that can be read in many ways Mann wrote in emigration during the years of the greatest world crisis, during the Nazi regime. Today, when we are once again living in a time of great crisis that demands a lot of humanity, solidarity and, above all, reason, Joseph and His Brothers is an extremely current and interesting novel. About it, the greatest expert on German literature, Prof. Dr. Viktor Žmegač, says: “In his huge novel in four parts, Thomas Mann told the biblical story in his own way: he subjected the mythical imagination to psychological analysis in a spirit of irony that plays with the experience of the past. The way in which ancient tradition is intertwined with the interpretation of modern science, so that he does not abandon the freedom of reasoning, is in keeping with the parodistic style.”