Thomas Mann, from the beginning of his career, took himself very seriously. Although his writing is difficult, he appealed to Germans familiar with their nation’s classics and was by 1929, when ...
Thomas Mann, a Nobel laureate and literary giant, fled Germany in the 1930s, later using his voice to condemn the Nazi regime through essays and BBC broadcasts. His early success with "Buddenbrooks" ...
Daniel Defoe, that indefatigable hack, published Journal of the Plague Year in 1722. Writing about the bubonic plague sweeping through London in 1665, when Defoe himself was no more than five years ...
Scholarly work on Thomas Mann has in recent decades grown to such an extent that it is hard to be kept track of even by specialists. Founded by Eckhard Heftrich and Hans Wysling and currently edited ...
More than any other modernist writer, Thomas Mann (1875–1955) has remained something of a mystery. Biographers have concluded from his writings that he was an anti-Semite, a closet homosexual, a proto ...
The following is a comment on Stefan Steinberg’s review of “Opulent, but flawed”: a review of The Manns: a Novel of a Century, a series on German television, which appeared on the WSWS on 27 December ...
Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, Thomas Mann’s agonized 500-page tract on the rights and wrongs of World War I, appeared in September 1918, just weeks before the war ended in a German defeat. In the ...
Scholarly work on Thomas Mann has in recent decades grown to such an extent that it is hard to be kept track of even by specialists. Founded by Eckhard Heftrich and Hans Wysling and currently edited ...
“Out of this worldwide festival of death, this ugly rutting fever that inflames the rainy evening sky all around—will love someday rise up out of this, too?” The bourgeois, anti-fascist Thomas Mann is ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 25, 2025 – The Goethe-Institut Washington, Thomas Mann House Los Angeles, USC Libraries, and the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research will host "An Appeal to ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. When author and Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann lived in the United States, he ...