Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature - Softcover

Heilbut, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520209117 ISBN 13: 9780520209114

Publisher: University of California Press, 1997

Synopsis

Here is a groundbreaking biography of one of the century's most important writers. Anthony Heilbut has plumbed the posthumously-published Mann diaries to give us a fresh and engaging examination of Thomas Mann's life and to reinvigorate the themes of his great body of work.

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Review:

A ground-breaking biography of one of the twentieth-century's literary titans, Thomas Mann, author of Doctor Faustus, Death in Venice, and The Magic Mountain. From the intimate details of his sexual emancipation to the heart-wrenching relationship with his family to his evolving political identity to the impetus of his great novels, Anthony Helbright offers original and incisive insight into the life of Thomas Mann as he becomes estranged from his beloved Germany, showing the fine threads in the weave between his life and his art.

From the Inside Flap:

"An extraordinary way to look at the work of a writer who influenced so many of us. . . . The portrait of Mann after fifty is electric."—Harold Brodkey

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0520209117
• ISBN 13: 9780520209114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 638