Joseph and his brothers. Mann T.

“Joseph and his brothers” - a large -scale tetralogy, on which Thomas Mann worked from 1926 to 1942 and which he himself considered his most significant work.

The plot of the biblical legend about Joseph the Beautiful author placed in a historical context the period of the reign of Amenhotep III and his son, the “pharaoh-reality” of Akhenaten, in order to tell the legend in more detail and brightly, creating an exciting historical saga on its basis.