Buch Details
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.
- Einband Andere
- Schriftsteller Kurzke, Hermann
- ISBN13 9780691070698
- ISBN10 0691070695
- Buchseiten 581
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2002
- Sprache Englisch
Thomas Mann: life as a work of art (A biography)
- Autor/in Hermann Kurzke
- Verlag PRINCETON
- ISBN 9780691070698