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Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438116327
Presents a brief biography of Thomas Mann, thematic and structural analysis of his works, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
Author : Hermann Kurzke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691070695
Kurze's book provides fresh and sometimes startling insights into both famous and little-known episodes in Mann's life and into his writing--the only realm in which he ever felt free. It shows how love, death, religion, and politics were not merely themes in "Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, " but were woven into the fabric of his existence. 40 photos.
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667602912
This volumes includes eight stories by Thomas Mann: Death in Venice Tonio Kröger Mario and the Magician Disorder and Early Sorrow A Man and his Dog The Blood of the Walsungs Tristan Felix Krull
Author : Tobias Boes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501745003
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.
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Onesuch Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780987153210
The ironic satire of a decaying German duchy and its rejuvenation by the appearance of an independent-minded American woman. Peopled with a range of characters from aristocrat to mad woman, this novel is a microcosm of Europe before the Great War. The book's driving force is the development of a love between the young Prince, hidebound by tradition, and the exotic, beautiful Imma. Written by Noble Prize winning author Thomas Mann, his careful depiction of a decaying society rejuvenated by modern forces illustrates in fable what he regarded as a universal truth - that ripeness and death are a necessary condition of rebirth.
Author : Donald A. Prater
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015034891849
This is the first up-to-date biography in English of Thomas Mann (1875-1955), perhaps the greatest German novelist of the twentieth century. Mann was the author of several classics of modern European fiction, including Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, and The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Trickster, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and a staunch opponent of Nazism (which eventually drove him intoexile). Celebrated biographer Donald Prater traces Mann's life and work, from his upbringing in Lubeck, through his years in Munich, his exile in the US, and his last years in Switzerland. He discusses Mann's relationship with his novelist brother Heinrich, his homosexuality, his career as aprolific essayist, and the vast achievement of his novels. But the biography devotes particular attention to Mann's political thinking and his role in the rise and fall of Hitlerism. In Mann's development from nationalistic conservatism to a vigorous humanist anti-Nazism, Prater sees a fascinatingand crucially important illustration of the 'German problem' still so much of relevance to the Europe of today. Elegantly written, and always entertaining, Thomas Mann: A Life will take its place as the major biography of Mann.
Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521653703
Specially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life.
Author : Anthony Heilbut
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015031874475
With 37 photographs in text
Author : Thomas Mann,Heinrich Mann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520072782
Presents the correspondence of Thomas and Heinrich Mann
Author : Hannelore Mundt
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570035377
Understanding Thomas Mann offers a comprehensive guide to the novels, short stories, novellas, and nonfiction of one of the most renowned and prolific German writers. In close readings, Hannelore Mundt illustrates how Mann's masterly prose captures both his time and the complexities of human existence with a unique blend of humor, compassion, irony, and ambiguity.
Author : Colm Toibin
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771096181
From the internationally bestselling author of Brooklyn and The Master comes the novel of a lifetime, Colm Tóibín's most dazzling and ambitious book yet. When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, is fired up with patriotism. He imagines the Germany of great literature and music, that had drawn him away from the stifling, conservative town of his childhood, might be a source of pride once again. But his flawed vision will form the beginning of a dark and complex relationship with his homeland, and see the start of great conflict within his own brilliant and troubled family. Colm Tóibín's epic novel is the story of a man of intense contradictions. Although Thomas Mann becomes famous and admired, his inner life is hesitant, fearful and secretive. His blindness to impending disaster in the Great War will force him to rethink his relationship to Germany as Hitler comes to power. He has six children with his clever and fascinating wife, Katia, while his own secret desires appear threaded through his writing. He and Katia deal with exile bravely, doing everything possible to keep the family safe, yet they also suffer the terrible ravages of suicide among Thomas's siblings and their own children. In The Magician, Colm Tóibín captures the profound personal conflict of a very public life, and through this life creates an intimate portrait of the twentieth century.
Author : Stanley Corngold
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691201641
A unique look at Thomas Mann’s intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States In September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize–winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United States. Heralded as “the greatest living man of letters,” Mann settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where, for nearly three years, he was stunningly productive as a novelist, university lecturer, and public intellectual. In The Mind in Exile, Stanley Corngold portrays in vivid detail this crucial station in Mann’s journey from arch-European conservative to liberal conservative to ardent social democrat. On the knife-edge of an exile that would last fully fourteen years, Mann declared, “Where I am, there is Germany. I carry my German culture in me.” At Princeton, Mann nourished an authentic German culture that he furiously observed was “going to the dogs” under Hitler. Here, he wrote great chunks of his brilliant novel Lotte in Weimar (The Beloved Returns); the witty novella The Transposed Heads; and the first chapters of Joseph the Provider, which contain intimations of his beloved President Roosevelt’s economic policies. Each of Mann’s university lectures—on Goethe, Freud, Wagner—attracted nearly 1,000 auditors, among them the baseball catcher, linguist, and O.S.S. spy Moe Berg. Meanwhile, Mann had the determination to travel throughout the United States, where he delivered countless speeches in defense of democratic values. In Princeton, Mann exercised his “stupendous capacity for work” in a circle of friends, all highly accomplished exiles, including Hermann Broch, Albert Einstein, and Erich Kahler. The Mind in Exile portrays this luminous constellation of intellectuals at an extraordinary time and place.
Author : Herbert Lehnert,Eva Wessell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781571132192
Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Doktor Faustus attest to his mastery of subtle, distanced irony, while novellas such as Death in Venice reveal him at the height of his mastery of language. In addition to fresh insights about these best-known works of Mann, this volume treats less-often-discussed works such as Joseph and His Brothers, Lotte in Weimar, and Felix Krull, as well as his political writings and essays. Mann himself was a paradox: his role as family-father was both refuge and façade; his love of Germany was matched by his contempt for its having embraced Hitler. While in exile during the Nazi period, he functioned as the prime representative of the "good" Germany in the fight against fascism, and he has often been remembered this way in English-speaking lands. But a new view of Mann is emerging half a century after his death: a view of him as one of the great writers of a modernity understood as extending into our 21st century. This volume provides sixteen essays by American and European specialists. They demonstrate the relevance of his writings for our time, making particular use of the biographical material that is now available.Contributors: Ehrhard Bahr, Manfred Dierks, Werner Frizen, Clayton Koelb, Helmut Koopmann, Wolfgang Lederer, Hannelore Mundt, Peter Pütz, Jens Rieckmann, Hans Joachim Sandberg, Egon Schwarz, and Hans Vaget.Herbert Lehnert is Research Professor, and Eva Wessell is lecturer in Humanities, both at the University of California, Irvine.
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:782006383
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Vintage Classics
Page : 1207 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0749386770
THE BOOK: As Germany dissolved into the nightmare of Nazism, Thomas Mann was at work on this epic recasting of the the great Bible story. Joseph, his brothers and his father Jacob, are at the prototypes of all humanity and their story is the story of life itself. Mann has taken one of the great simple chronicles of literature and filled it with psychological scope and range: its men and women are not remote figures in the Book of Genesis, but founders of states in a fresh, realisic world akin to our own .