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Thomas Mann (Critical Lives) by Herbert Lehnert and Eva Wessell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This concise yet thorough critical biography throws new light on the work of German novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and social critic Thomas Mann. It also offers a fresh look at the value of his short stories. Looking closely at how Mann’s brother Heinrich as well as the work of philosophers (notably Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Goethe) influenced Mann’s writing, Herbert Lehnert and Eva Wessell reveal how Mann’s fictional worlds criticized the prevailing bourgeois order, and how his first novel, __Buddenbrooks,__ signaled the need for change. Lehnert and Wessell also explore the lasting significance of such groundbreaking works as __The Magic Mountain,____Death in Venice,__ and __Doctor Faustus__, a novel that, in view of fascism, asks whether the bourgeois culture of the individual has not become diseased. __Thomas Mann__ also investigates Mann’s political views, from his anti-Nazi speeches to his anti-McCarthyist activities. The book offers an engaging, fresh account of an essential German writer, one which illustrates how the context of Mann’s life shaped his achievements.

Who reads Thomas Mann (Critical Lives)?

Author

Herbert Lehnert and Eva Wessell

Publisher

Reaktion Books, Limited

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781789140811

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography