Das Gesetz - Novelle (1944)

thomas Mann’s novella, “The Law” portrays the events of the Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt in a similar fashion as Mann told the story of Joseph in his Joseph novels – with gentle rationality and delicate irony. The commentaries by Volker Ladenthin and Thomas Vormbaum take up specific aspects of the story from a literary and judicial perspective.

Volker Ladenthin, Universität Bonn; Thomas Vormbaum, FernUniversität Hagen.