Interlude III: The Tables of the Law (1943)

Abstract

The novella The Tables of the Law has always occupied a singular status among the works of Thomas Mann. It is his only mature work of fiction to have been written on commission, his only story to appear in English before it did in German. And it starkly divided both contemporary reviewers and later critics, some of whom dismissed it as a second-rate coda to the gargantuan ...