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1 day ago · A comprehensive biography of Thomas Mann, a German novelist, essayist, and Nobel laureate. Learn about his life, works, family, political views, and exile from Nazi Germany.
1 day ago · Paul Thomas Mann (* 6. Juni 1875 in Lübeck; † 12. August 1955 in Zürich, Schweiz) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und einer der bedeutendsten Erzähler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er wurde 1929 mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur ausgezeichnet.
4 days ago · In her latest novel, The Empusium, translated by Tokarczuk’s long-time collaborator Antonia Lloyd-Jones, her material is Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain.
5 days ago · Any Central European novel about a sanitarium is automatically in conversation with “The Magic Mountain,” Thomas Mann’s epic of stasis and suspended time, in which the young bourgeois Hans ...
3 days ago · Der Thomas Mann-Preis der Hansestadt Lübeck und der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste wird seit 2010 im jährlichen Wechsel in Lübeck und München verliehen und ist mit 25.000 Euro dotiert.
1 day ago · Thomas Mann wrote of Tolstoy's seemingly guileless artistry: "Seldom did art work so much like nature." Vladimir Nabokov heaped superlatives upon The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Anna Karenina; he questioned, however, the reputation of War and Peace, and sharply criticized Resurrection and The Kreutzer Sonata.
1 day ago · Goethe became a key reference for Thomas Mann in his speeches and essays defending the republic. [134] He emphasized Goethe's "cultural and self-developing individualism", humanism, and cosmopolitanism.