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- catalog abstract "A groundbreaking biography of one of the century's most important writers. A portrait of Thomas Mann's Germany, his work, his life, his exile and arrival in America - a life of suffering and courage, of great achievement, a life beset by political hostility from the right and the left, and by the torments of sexual frustration. We see Mann, the wunderkind, transforming the history of his family into Germany's first classic novel, Buddenbrooks ... the competition between Thomas and his brother Heinrich, who became his greatest literary rival. We see Mann in turn-of-the-century Munich, always the hyperobservant outsider. And we come to understand his immense loneliness, a loneliness interrupted briefly by an affair with a young violinist, Paul Ehrenberg ("that central experience of my heart"), that was later dramatized in Doctor Faustus. We watch his unlikely courtship of the brilliant Katia Pringsheim, member of a wealthy assimilated Jewish family. We follow their life together during their fifty-year marriage and observe his complicated relations with his six children, particularly Klaus and Erika, who became the leading political and sexual radicals of their generation. Anthony Heilbut defines Mann's place in literary historyhis relation to his literary ancestors, particularly Goethe and Nietzsche, as well as his contemporaries Gide and Kafka, and to the American writers Whitman and Melville. He provides new social and psychological insights into the interplay of Mann's life with such works as Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Joseph and His Brothers, and The Confessions of Felix Krull. We watch Mann contend with the major intellectual and political crises of Europe after World War I as he evolves politically from arch defender of Germany to leading antifascist. We discover a link between his humanist politics and his dreams of sexual emancipation. We see Mann alternately enthralled and horrified by popular culture. We follow his increasing identification with the Jewish community, which included his most fervent admirers and harshest critics. Anthony Heilbut considers Mann's experience of America, first as a devotee of Roosevelt, then as an outspoken opponent of McCarthyism who was widely condemned in the press and in Congress, and hounded by his enemies well into his late seventies.".
- catalog contributor b7488979.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "A groundbreaking biography of one of the century's most important writers. A portrait of Thomas Mann's Germany, his work, his life, his exile and arrival in America - a life of suffering and courage, of great achievement, a life beset by political hostility from the right and the left, and by the torments of sexual frustration. We see Mann, the wunderkind, transforming the history of his family into Germany's first classic novel, Buddenbrooks ... the competition between Thomas and his brother Heinrich, who became his greatest literary rival. We see Mann in turn-of-the-century Munich, always the hyperobservant outsider. And we come to understand his immense loneliness, a loneliness interrupted briefly by an affair with a young violinist, Paul Ehrenberg ("that central experience of my heart"), that was later dramatized in Doctor Faustus.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-618) and index.".
- catalog description "We watch Mann contend with the major intellectual and political crises of Europe after World War I as he evolves politically from arch defender of Germany to leading antifascist. We discover a link between his humanist politics and his dreams of sexual emancipation. We see Mann alternately enthralled and horrified by popular culture. We follow his increasing identification with the Jewish community, which included his most fervent admirers and harshest critics. Anthony Heilbut considers Mann's experience of America, first as a devotee of Roosevelt, then as an outspoken opponent of McCarthyism who was widely condemned in the press and in Congress, and hounded by his enemies well into his late seventies.".
- catalog description "We watch his unlikely courtship of the brilliant Katia Pringsheim, member of a wealthy assimilated Jewish family. We follow their life together during their fifty-year marriage and observe his complicated relations with his six children, particularly Klaus and Erika, who became the leading political and sexual radicals of their generation. Anthony Heilbut defines Mann's place in literary historyhis relation to his literary ancestors, particularly Goethe and Nietzsche, as well as his contemporaries Gide and Kafka, and to the American writers Whitman and Melville. He provides new social and psychological insights into the interplay of Mann's life with such works as Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Joseph and His Brothers, and The Confessions of Felix Krull.".
- catalog description "pt. I.A Prodigal Son of His Class. 1. Senator Mann's Son. 2. A Prince in Disguise. 3. A Selective Education -- pt. II. An Artist with a Bad Conscience. 1. A Cold Look. 2. "The Best 'Munchen' There Ever Was" 3. Nobody Likes Them, Not Even Their Dogs. 4. Dreams of Laurel Wreaths. 5. Buddenbrooks. 6. The Rivals. 7. "That Central Experience of My Heart" 8. Hysterical Renaissance and Infant Prodigies. 9. "How Can You See It and Not Play It?" 10. Marriage! Happiness! -- pt. III. Renunciation and Eros. 1. Making Sentences Out of Things. 2. The Left-Handed Prince. 3. The Education of a Confidence Man. 4. Death in Venice. 5. Make War, Not Love. 6. The Politics of a Nervous Exception -- pt. IV. Parodying Nature. 1. Beginning the World Again. 2. The Munich Revolution. 3. Mann Onstage. 4. A Family Man -- pt. V. Imperial Pastimes and Democratic Vistas. 1. The Black Sheep's Triumph. 2. "Do We Live If Others Live?" 3. Eros and the Republic: Democratic Vistas. 4. Imperial Pastimes.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 636 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Thomas Mann.".
- catalog identifier "039455633X :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Thomas Mann.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House,".
- catalog relation "Thomas Mann.".
- catalog subject "833/.912 B 20".
- catalog subject "Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 Biography.".
- catalog subject "Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, German 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "PT2625.A44 Z54415 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I.A Prodigal Son of His Class. 1. Senator Mann's Son. 2. A Prince in Disguise. 3. A Selective Education -- pt. II. An Artist with a Bad Conscience. 1. A Cold Look. 2. "The Best 'Munchen' There Ever Was" 3. Nobody Likes Them, Not Even Their Dogs. 4. Dreams of Laurel Wreaths. 5. Buddenbrooks. 6. The Rivals. 7. "That Central Experience of My Heart" 8. Hysterical Renaissance and Infant Prodigies. 9. "How Can You See It and Not Play It?" 10. Marriage! Happiness! -- pt. III. Renunciation and Eros. 1. Making Sentences Out of Things. 2. The Left-Handed Prince. 3. The Education of a Confidence Man. 4. Death in Venice. 5. Make War, Not Love. 6. The Politics of a Nervous Exception -- pt. IV. Parodying Nature. 1. Beginning the World Again. 2. The Munich Revolution. 3. Mann Onstage. 4. A Family Man -- pt. V. Imperial Pastimes and Democratic Vistas. 1. The Black Sheep's Triumph. 2. "Do We Live If Others Live?" 3. Eros and the Republic: Democratic Vistas. 4. Imperial Pastimes.".
- catalog title "Thomas Mann : eros and literature / Anthony Heilbut.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".