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Winckelmann's death in Trieste may have helped to inspire Aschenbach's death in Venice.3 Mann alludes unmistakably ... to express his own personality , especially his distress over the repeated experience of unrequited homosexual love .
This book is a comprehensive commentary on Thomas Mann’s seminal novel, one of the key literary artefacts of the 20th century.
This volume provides sixteen essays by American and European specialists.
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present.
This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more.
Tobias Mindernickel (1897) is an unflinching portrait of a lonely man's sadistic treatment of his beloved dog: he stabs it in a furious outburst and then cuddles it as it bleeds to death. Lobgott Piepsam, the protagonist of The Path to ...
T.J. Reed's study has long established itself as the standard work in English on Thomas mann, and offers as comprehensive a view of Mann's fiction and thought as is available in any language.
This book provides the first systematic exploration of the English versions, illustrating the vicissitudes of literary translation through a principled discussion of a major author.
The NYRB Classics edition includes two additional essays by Mann: “Thoughts in Wartime” (1914), translated by Mark Lilla and Cosima Mattner; and “On the German Republic” (1922), translated by Lawrence Rainey.
The Magic Mountain (German: Der Zauberberg) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature.