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<p>Author of such classics as <b>Buddenbrooks</b>, <b>Death in Venice</b>, <b>Doctor Faustus</b>, and <b>The Magic Mountain</b>, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature not half-way through his career, Thomas Mann was without doubt the leading German novelist of his era and one of the three or four great writers of our century.</p> <p>Now, in <b>Thomas Mann: A Life</b>, celebrated biographer Donald Prater illuminates the life and work of this gifted writer, from his upbringing in Lubeck, through his years in Munich, his exile in the United States, and his last years in Switzerland. Prater discusses Mann's tumultuous relationship with his novelist brother Heinrich, which Mann called, "the hardest of my existence," his homosexuality, his career as a prolific essayist, the vast achievement of his novels, and his love of music. Prater writes that as Mann's passion for the gramophone grew almost to a vice, the music became an important motif for his text and a stimulus in its composition. Indeed, Mann conceived of such books as <b>The Magic Mountain</b> as symphonic constructions, interweaving its themes in strict counterpoint. Prater also reveals the personal side of Mann, f

Author

Prater, Donald A., 1918-

Publisher

Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198158615

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction