Thomas Mann : : Life as a Work of Art. A Biography / / Hermann Kurzke.
This vivid, sometimes tragic, and often humorous literary biography brings to life as never before the extraordinary talent and complex person who was Thomas Mann. Engrossing vignettes enable us to enter Mann's life and work from unique angles. We meet the difficult, even unsavory private man:...
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Kurzke, Hermann, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Thomas Mann : Life as a Work of Art. A Biography / Hermann Kurzke. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021] ©2003 1 online resource (600 p.) : 40 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- I. Childhood and School Days -- II. Early Love and First Writings -- III. Before Fame -- IV. Thomas and Heinrich -- V. The Path to Marriage -- VI. Ambitious Plans -- VII. Jews -- VIII. War -- IX. Attempts at Orientation -- X. Family, No Fun Either -- XI. In the Magic Mountain -- XII. Republican Politics -- XIII. Homoeroticism of Midlife -- XIV. Ostracized -- XV. Joseph and His Brothers -- XVI. Hate for Hitler -- XVII. Doctor Faustus -- XVIII. Pain and Glory -- XIX. To the Last Breath -- XX. Final Things -- Figure Credits -- Index of Names restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This vivid, sometimes tragic, and often humorous literary biography brings to life as never before the extraordinary talent and complex person who was Thomas Mann. Engrossing vignettes enable us to enter Mann's life and work from unique angles. We meet the difficult, even unsavory private man: hypochondriac and nervous, narcissistic and vainglorious, isolated and greedy for love, shy and often ungenerous. But we are also introduced to a man who lived an eventful life, was capable of great kindness, loved dogs, doted on his daughters, and listened to Jack Benny. We experience Mann's tragedy as the quintessential German forced by the rise of National Socialism first into inner exile and then into real exile in Switzerland, Princeton, and California. His letters from this time reveal the torment that exile represented for a writer whose work, indeed whose very self, was inextricably bound up with the German language. The 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, and other works, but were woven into the fabric of his existence and preoccupied him unrelentingly. It also teases out what is known about what Mann considered his celibate homoeroticism and what others have labeled closeted homosexuality. In particular, we learn about his affection for the young man who inspired the character of Tadzio in Death in Venice. And, against the unfocused accusations of anti-Semitism that have been leveled at Mann, the book examines in human detail his relationships with Jewish writers, friends, and family members. This is the richest available portrait of Thomas Mann as man and writer--the place to start for anyone wanting to know anything about his life, work, or times. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) Novelists, German 20th century Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. bisacsh Willson, Leslie, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Willson, Leslie. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691236322?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691236322 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691236322/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- I. Childhood and School Days -- II. Early Love and First Writings -- III. Before Fame -- IV. Thomas and Heinrich -- V. The Path to Marriage -- VI. Ambitious Plans -- VII. Jews -- VIII. War -- IX. Attempts at Orientation -- X. Family, No Fun Either -- XI. In the Magic Mountain -- XII. Republican Politics -- XIII. Homoeroticism of Midlife -- XIV. Ostracized -- XV. Joseph and His Brothers -- XVI. Hate for Hitler -- XVII. Doctor Faustus -- XVIII. Pain and Glory -- XIX. To the Last Breath -- XX. Final Things -- Figure Credits -- Index of Names |
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