Susan Bernofsky
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Susan Bernofsky is an American translator of German-language literature and author.
Susan Bernofsky speaking at swissnex San Francisco on April 3, 2013
The Magic Mountain
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The Magic Mountain is a German novel written by Thomas Mann, published in November 1924 about a young and aspiring engineer Hans Castorp. While staying in the secluded world of a high-altitude sanator
Susan Bernofsky
…Roth Award for her translation of Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck. In 2024, Bernofsky was reported to be working on a translation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. She teaches at Columbia University. In April 2024, she was one of 23 Jewish professors at Columbia (including six Barnard College professors) to sign…
First German edition (1924)
A picture of mountain scenery at Davos, the novel's Alpine setting
Mann in 1926
Parzival: knights ascend to the Grail Castle