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Thomas Mann Actor
Author by: Judith MarcusLanguange: enPublisher by: Univ of Massachusetts PressFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 16Total Download: 517File Size: 44,9 MbDescription: Georg Lukacs, the philosopher and literary critic, and Thomas Mann, the creative artist, were two towering figures in twentieth-century European intellectual life. Although they enjoyed a fruitful literary relationship, the two men never established an intimate friendship. In fact, Lukacs once said that the only 'dark spot' and 'unsolved mystery' in his life was Mann's life-long unresponsiveness to him as a person. Based primarily on Lukacs's and Mann's early work, plus correspondence, unpublished archival materials, and interviews with Lukacs, Katja Mann, Ernst Bloch, Arnold Hauser, and others, Part I of this study traces the development of the 'spiritual-intellectual symbiosis' between Lukacs and Mann that lasted at least until the First World War. Part 2 turns to the question of the inspirational sources for Mann's fictional character, Leo Naphta, in his novel The Magic Mountain. Exploring the claim that Lukacs himself was the model for this protagonist, Judith Marcus looks at the 'Jewish intellectual' as an ideal type throughout Mann's oeuvre. She concludes that Naphta's totalitarian personality was inspired by the radicalism, rigidity, dogmatism, and asceticism of the young, then non-Marxist Lukacs, and that it was in part these very traits in Lukacs that stymied the growth of personal intimacy between the two men.
Der Zauberberg Thomas Mann
Author by: Martin Patrick Anthony TraversLanguange: enPublisher by: Macmillan International Higher EducationFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 64Total Download: 379File Size: 44,5 MbDescription: This is part of a series of books which review specific novelists and their work. The main aim of this series is to look at the adaptability and growth of the novel in its various contexts. Each book provides an introduction to the fiction of the writer concerned, both for those who are approaching the work for the first time and for those who are familiar with some parts of the writer's achievement. Although essential information on the writer's life and times is given, usually in an opening chapter, the approach is primarily critical and the emphasis is not on background or generalizations but upon close examination of important texts. Where an author is prolific, texts have been made to convey a sense of the author's work as a whole. Novel Buddenbrooks, a book on the theme of the decay of the family which contained many autobiographical features, the novella Tonio Kroger written in 1903 and Observations of an Unpolitical Man written in 1918. Later works included The Magic Mountain in 1924 and Dr Faustus in 1947.