Letters Of Thomas Mann 1889 1955

Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520069684

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Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955 by Thomas Mann Pdf

"Mann's pivotal role during the Nazi period as perhaps the most eloquent spokesman for the 'other Germany' that lived in exile means that anyone studying the history of our century must begin with him. . . . These letters are literary and cultural documents that have few equals in our age."--James K. Lyon, University of California, San Diego "Mann's pivotal role during the Nazi period as perhaps the most eloquent spokesman for the 'other Germany' that lived in exile means that anyone studying the history of our century must begin with him. . . . These letters are literary and cultural documents that have few equals in our age."--James K. Lyon, University of California, San Diego

Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:951924645

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The Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955 by Thomas Mann Pdf

Author : Thomas Mann,Richard Winston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0436272466

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The Letters of Thomas Mann ; Introduction by Richard Winston by Thomas Mann,Richard Winston Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955
ISBN : OCLC:125475

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Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Mann (Schriftsteller)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1123798011

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Letters of Thomas Mann by Thomas Mann (Schriftsteller) Pdf

Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0436272458

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Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955: 1943-1955 by Thomas Mann Pdf

Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015006580271

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The Hesse-Mann Letters by Hermann Hesse Pdf

Author : Theodor W. Adorno,Thomas Mann
Publisher : Polity
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780745632001

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Correspondence 1943-1955 by Theodor W. Adorno,Thomas Mann Pdf

In December 1945 Thomas Mann wrote a famous letter to Adorno in which he formulated the principle of montage adopted in his novel Doctor Faustus. The writer expressly invited the philosopher to consider, with me, how such a work and I mean Leverkhns work could more or less be practically realized. Their close collaboration on questions concerning the character of the fictional composers putatively late works (Adorno produced specific sketches which are included as an appendix to the present volume) effectively laid the basis for a further exchange of letters. The ensuing correspondence between the two men documents a rare encounter of creative tension between literary tradition and aesthetic modernism which would be sustained right up until the novelists death in 1955. In the letters, Thomas Mann openly acknowledged his fascinated reading of Adornos Minima Moralia and commented in detail on the Essay on Wagner, which he was as eager to read as the one in the Book of Revelation consumes a book which tastes as sweet as honey. Adorno in turn offered detailed observations upon and frequently enthusiastic commendations of Manns later writings, such as The Holy Sinner, The Betrayed One and The Confessions of Felix Krull. Their correspondence also touches upon issues of great personal significance, notably the sensitive discussion of the problems of returning from exile to postwar Germany. The letters are extensively annotated and offer the reader detailed notes concerning the writings, events and personalities referred or alluded to in the correspondence.

Author : Hermann Hesse,Thomas Mann
Publisher : Rediscovered Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1934978868

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The Hesse-Mann Letters by Hermann Hesse,Thomas Mann Pdf

. .. the best of the letters present us with two fundamentally decent, sophisticated men grieving for the ruined world. In the 1930s and 1940s, they rail against the stupidity of war and the cowardice of diplomats, against the social savagery of the Nazis,

Author : Thomas Mann,Heinrich Mann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520072782

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Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-1949 by Thomas Mann,Heinrich Mann Pdf

Presents the correspondence of Thomas and Heinrich Mann

Author : T. J. Reed
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191589737

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Thomas Mann by T. J. Reed Pdf

T.J. Reed's study has long established itself as the standard work in English on Thomas mann, and offers as comprehensive a view of Mann's fiction and thought as is available in any language. It is based on a coherent close reading of Mann's oeuvre, literary and political, and also on manuscripts and sources, and was part of the first phase of literary scholarship that opened up the resources of the Zurich Thomas Mann Archive. Further documents that have appeared since then - Mann's diaries, notebooks, and other correspondences - have not fundamentally altered the individual interpretations or the overall picture the study offers, and in some respects have emphatically confirmed them. A further chapter added to this edition covers the new documentation, gives a vigorous account of the main curents in Mann scholarship and criticism over the last two decades suggesting how we should now see the writer, the man, and the political figure, and above all the complex relationship between the three.

Author : Jean-Michel Palmier
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784786465

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Weimar in Exile by Jean-Michel Palmier Pdf

A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, “the best of Germany,” refusing to remain citizens in this new state that legalized terror and brutality. Exiled across the world, they continued the fight against Nazism in prose, poetry, painting, architecture, film and theater. Weimar in Exile follows these lives, from the rise of national socialism to their return to a ruined homeland, retracing their stories, struggles, setbacks and rare victories. The dignity in exile of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, Hanns Eisler, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, Ernst Toller, Stefan Zweig and many others provides a counterpoint to the story of Germany under the Nazis.

Author : David Horton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441166807

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Thomas Mann in English by David Horton Pdf

Thomas Mann owes his place in world literature to the dissemination of his works through translation. Indeed, it was the monumental success of the original English translations that earned him the title of 'the greatest living man of letters' during his years in American exile (1938-52). This book provides the first systematic exploration of the English versions, illustrating the vicissitudes of literary translation through a principled discussion of a major author. The study illuminates the contexts in which the translations were produced before exploring the transformations Mann's work has undergone in the process of transfer. An exemplary analysis of selected textual dimensions demonstrates the multiplicity of factors which impinge upon literary translation, leading far beyond the traditional preoccupation with issues of equivalence. Thomas Mann in English thus fills a gap both in translation studies, where Thomas Mann serves as a constant but ill-defined point of reference, and in literary studies, which has focused increasingly on the author's wider reception.

Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810129535

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Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes by Jeffrey Meyers Pdf

Jeffrey Meyers has written acclaimed biographies of many of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, but none has affected him as deeply as Thomas Mann. From his first youthful encounter with Death in Venice, Meyers has cultivated a lifetime obsession with Mann's elegant style, penetrating irony, and insight into the life of the artist.Admirers of Thomas Mann and of Jeffrey Meyers's biographies will find in this remarkable book the best introduction to one of the greatest writers of the modern age.

Author : Tobias Boes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501745003

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Thomas Mann's War by Tobias Boes Pdf

In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having fled his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books. Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, Mann undertook successful lecture tours of the country and penned widely-read articles that alerted US audiences and readers to the dangers of complacency in the face of Nazism's existential threat. Spanning four decades, from the eve of World War I, when Mann was first translated into English, to 1952, the year in which he left an America increasingly disfigured by McCarthyism, Boes establishes Mann as a significant figure in the wartime global republic of letters.