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His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. When Hitler came to power in , Mann fled to Switzerland. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur. Other books in the series.
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Books by Thomas Mann. No trivia or quizzes yet. With the start of the Cold War he was increasingly frustrated by rising McCarthyism. As a 'suspected communist', he was required to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee , where he was termed "one of the world's foremost apologists for Stalin and company. Spiritual intolerance, political inquisitions, and declining legal security, and all this in the name of an alleged 'state of emergency.
That is how it started in Germany. He never again lived in Germany, though he regularly traveled there. His most important German visit was in , at the th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , attending celebrations in Frankfurt am Main and Weimar , as a statement that German culture extended beyond the new political borders.
Blanche Knopf of Alfred A. Knopf publishing house was introduced to Mann by H. Mencken while on a book-buying trip to Europe.
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After Buddenbrooks proved successful in its first year they sent him an unexpected bonus. Later in the s, Blanche helped arrange for Mann and his family emigrate to America. The Magic Mountain Der Zauberberg , follows an engineering student who, planning to visit his tubercular cousin at a Swiss sanatorium for only three weeks, finds his departure from the sanatorium delayed. During that time, he confronts medicine and the way it looks at the body and encounters a variety of characters, who play out ideological conflicts and discontents of contemporary European civilization.
The tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers is an epic novel written over a period of sixteen years, and is one of the largest and most significant works in Mann's oeuvre. Throughout his Dostoevsky essay, he finds parallels between the Russian and the sufferings of Friedrich Nietzsche. Speaking of Nietzsche, he says: It was the French painter and sculptor Degas who said that an artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
Mann held that disease is not to be regarded as wholly negative. In his essay on Dostoevsky we find: In their case something comes out in illness that is more important and conductive to life and growth than any medical guaranteed health or sanity Mann's diaries reveal his struggles with his homosexuality , which found reflection in his works, most prominently through the obsession of the elderly Aschenbach for the year-old Polish boy Tadzio in the novella Death in Venice Der Tod in Venedig , Anthony Heilbut 's biography Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature uncovered the centrality of Mann's sexuality to his oeuvre.
Mann's diary records his attraction to his own year-old son, "Eissi" — Klaus Mann: In the background conversations about man-to-man eroticism take place; a long letter is written to Carl Maria Weber on this topic, while the diary reveals: Find it very natural that I am in love with my son Eissi lay reading in bed with his brown torso naked, which disconcerted me" 25 July.
Strong impression of his premasculine, gleaming body. Disquiet" 17 October Handling the struggle between the Dionysiac and the Apollonian , [ citation needed ] Death in Venice has been made into a film and an opera. Blamed sarcastically by Mann's old enemy, Alfred Kerr , for having made pederasty acceptable to the cultivated middle classes, it has been pivotal in introducing the discourse of same-sex desire into general culture. The attraction that he felt for Ehrenberg, which is corroborated by notebook entries, caused Mann difficulty and discomfort and may have been an obstacle to his marrying an English woman, Mary Smith, whom he met in Although Mann had always denied his novels had autobiographical components, the unsealing of his diaries revealing how consumed his life had been with unrequited and sublimated passion resulted in a reappraisal of his work.
Several literary and other works make reference to Mann's book The Magic Mountain , including:. During World War I, Mann supported Kaiser Wilhelm II 's conservatism, attacked liberalism and supported the war effort, calling the Great War "a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope". Yet in Von Deutscher Republik as a semi-official spokesman for parliamentary democracy, Mann called upon German intellectuals to support the new Weimar Republic.
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He also gave a lecture at the Beethovensaal in Berlin on 13 October , which appeared in Die neue Rundschau in November in which he developed his eccentric defence of the Republic, based on extensive close readings of Novalis and Walt Whitman. Hereafter, his political views gradually shifted toward liberal left and democratic principles. In , Mann gave a public address in Berlin titled "An Appeal to Reason" in which he strongly denounced Nazism and encouraged resistance by the working class.
This was followed by numerous essays and lectures in which he attacked the Nazis. At the same time, he expressed increasing sympathy for socialist ideas.
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When the Nazis came to power in , Mann and his wife were on holiday in Switzerland. Due to his strident denunciations of Nazi policies, his son Klaus advised him not to return. In contrast to those of his brother Heinrich and his son Klaus, Mann's book were not among those burnt publicly by Hitler's regime in May , possibly since he had been the Nobel laureate in literature for In , the Nazi government officially revoked his German citizenship.
During the war, Mann made a series of anti-Nazi radio-speeches, published as Listen, Germany! Mann expressed his belief in the collection of letters written in exile, Listen, Germany!
He said that the transition of the communist revolution into an autocratic regime was a tragedy while Nazism was only "devilish nihilism". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other people named Thomas Mann, see Thomas Mann disambiguation.
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