tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231952.post2154722433370760576..comments2024-01-17T09:43:44.882-06:00Comments on The Frugal Chariot: Interpreter of DreamsJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00561320676355168336noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231952.post-79781965413663199382014-02-07T08:53:43.451-06:002014-02-07T08:53:43.451-06:00I am not sure why Joseph and His Brothers is not b...I am not sure why <i>Joseph and His Brothers</i> is not better known. <br />However, it may be due to the publisher, Alfred Knopf, allowing the original translation by Harriet Lowe-Porter to go out of print in the mid-90's. As far as I am aware there was never a paperback edition as was the case with Mann's other major novels. <br />Ten years ago when I first read the novel, those in Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561320676355168336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231952.post-87861171478604791672014-02-07T07:29:14.631-06:002014-02-07T07:29:14.631-06:00I really want to read this work some day.
As I be...I really want to read this work some day.<br /><br />As I believe that I mentioned in one of my previous comment it sounds as if Mann has done a masterful job of taking themes and motifs from the Biblical story and developing them. As you pint out, here it is the theme of dream interpretation and the rising to prominence from obscurity. <br /><br />I find it a little odd that this work is not Brian Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139559400312336791noreply@blogger.com