Thomas Mann Life as a Work of Art A Biography First Edition by Hermann Kurzke ISBN 0691070695 9780691070698

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ISBN 10: 0691070695

ISBN 13: 9780691070698 

Author: Hermann Kurzke 

This vivid, sometimes tragic, and often humorous literary biography brings to life as never before the extraordinary talent and complex person who was Thomas Mann.

Engrossing vignettes enable us to enter Mann’s life and work from unique angles. We meet the difficult, even unsavory private man: hypochondriac and nervous, narcissistic and vainglorious, isolated and greedy for love, shy and often ungenerous. But we are also introduced to a man who lived an eventful life, was capable of great kindness, loved dogs, doted on his daughters, and listened to Jack Benny.

We experience Mann’s tragedy as the quintessential German forced by the rise of National Socialism first into inner exile and then into real exile in Switzerland, Princeton, and California. His letters from this time reveal the torment that exile represented for a writer whose work, indeed whose very self, was inextricably bound up with the German language.

The book provides fresh and sometimes startling insights into both famous and little-known episodes in Mann’s life and into his writing–the only realm in which he ever felt free. It shows how love, death, religion, and politics were not merely themes in Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and other works, but were woven into the fabric of his existence and preoccupied him unrelentingly. It also teases out what is known about what Mann considered his celibate homoeroticism and what others have labeled closeted homosexuality. In particular, we learn about his affection for the young man who inspired the character of Tadzio in Death in Venice. And, against the unfocused accusations of anti-Semitism that have been leveled at Mann, the book examines in human detail his relationships with Jewish writers, friends, and family members.

This is the richest available portrait of Thomas Mann as man and writer–the place to start for anyone wanting to know anything about his life, work, or times. 

Table of contents:

I. Childhood and School Days

• Chronicle 1875–1894

• Horoscope

• Sunday Bells

• In the Shadow of St. Mary’s Church

• Thunder and Lightning

• Othellos

• Lead Soldiers and Playing Gods

• Your Sapiency and Lübeck’s Most Beautiful Woman

• Bed and Sleep, Elegiacal

• Stretch, Curtail, Corrupt

• Flunking

• The Autodidact

• Fellow Students

II. Early Love and First Writings

• Chronicle 1889–1893

• First Love: Armin Martens

• Williram Timpe

• The Sunken Treasure

• Lost Poems and Dramas

• Spring Storm and Other Immature Things

• Girls in Lübeck

III. Before Fame

• Chronicle 1894–1901

• Deciding for His Mother

• Freedom

• Talented and Chosen

• A Metaphysical Magic Potion

• Klärchen

• Quiet in All the Cellars!

• Knowledge Is the Deepest Torment in the World

• Elbow Room: Little Herr Friedemann

• Primal Odds and Ends

• The Opera Glass

• General Dr. von Staat

• Italy

• “Amen!” Means “Enough!”

• A Scavenger

• But the Little Hunchback, Too

IV. Thomas and Heinrich

• Chronicle 1875–1914

• Papa’s Death and Goodwill

• In Inimicos

• Lorenzo and the Prior

• Correspondence

• Plebeians and Chandalas, Renaissance Men and the Ideal of Feminine Artistic Beauty

• The Hunt for Love

• Heinrich and Katia

V. The Path to Marriage

• Chronicle 1900–1905

• A Stroke of Luck

• Tonio Kröger

• I Love You! My God… I Love You!

• The Flirtation Squabble

• Paul’s Death

• Chastity

• “Du”—Informal Address

• Literature and Life

• Mary Smith

• Money Matches

• The Courtship of Katia Pringsheim

• Prince and Algebra

• Engagement and Wedding

• Katia, Fictionally

VI. Ambitious Plans

• Chronicle 1905–1914

• Fame!

• Fiorenza

• Heroism: Frederick the Great

• The Unsuccessful Bilse Piece and Other Activities

• Workday and Alcohol

• Why Did I Get Married?

• Maya

• The Train Wreck

• The State, Our Father, and an Enlightened Monarch

• Censor Anti-Censor

• How Jappe and Do Escobar Had a Fight

• Death in Venice

• A Death in Polling

• Sense of Family, a Snapshot

• Plans of Doing Away with Oneself

VII. Jews

• The Blood of the Wälsungs and Doctor Sammet

• Anti-Semitism?

• The Jewish Girl

• Thomas Mann—Wasn’t He a Jew?

• The Harden Trial

• Alfred Kerr

• Theodor Lessing

• A Wretched Man

VIII. War

• Chronicle 1914–1918

• Soldier and Military Man Aschenbach

• 1914 in Letters

• Military Service

• Thomas Mann and the Grand Coalition

• The Ordeal

• Zola

• Saying Everything

• Eroticism and Irony

• Fratricidal War

• Opinions

• Attempt at a Reconciliation

• Mysticism

• Church

• Faith

IX. Attempts at Orientation

• Chronicle 1918–1921

• Heinrich

• Politics: Theory and Practice

• The Bavarian Soviet Republic

• Revolution in Russia

• Conservative Revolution

• On the Jewish Question

• Domestics

• A Comfort: Dogs

X. Family, No Fun Either

• Chronicle 1918–1933

• Poor Little Katia

• Loneliness

• Father of Six

• Erika

• Klaus

• Golo

• Monika

• Elisabeth

• Michael

XI. In the Magic Mountain

• Chronicle 1912–1924

• We Phantoms along the Path

• The Pyramid

• The Drift Net

• Boneless

• The Most Sensuous Thing I Ever Did

• Smoking

• Kings Know No Irony

• Things Most Questionable

• From Life to His Work

XII. Republican Politics

• Chronicle 1922–1933

• The Reconciliation with Heinrich and the Shift to the Republic

• The Vanquisher of the Romantic

• Trillion-Dollar Eggs

• The Fight against Fascism

• Seven Reasons for the Astonishing Politicization of Thomas Mann

• Johst, Hübscher, and Pilot Rogues

• Storm Troopers in Tuxedos

• Ernst Jünger

XIII. Homoeroticism of Midlife

• A Hesitant Coming Out

• Boys 1918–1921

• Weber, Wyneken, Wickersdorf

• Monstrous Indecencies

• Impotence

• Eros As a Statesman

• On Marriage

• Against Paragraph 175

• Klaus Heuser and Amphitryon

• A Candid Confessor

• A Don Quixote of Love

XIV. Ostracized

• Chronicle 1933–1936

• Hitler and Friedemann

• The Suitcase

• Let the World Know Me

• House, Heins, Heydrich

• Where Did the Hate Come From?

• Towering Alone

• The Great Disappointment

• A Political Act

• The Liberation

XV. Joseph and His Brothers

• Chronicle 1924–1943

• Anti-Bilse?

• Icing on the Cake

• Thamar and Agnes Meyer

• Father and Mother, Katia and Paul

• Churchill and the Bible

• God, the Father, and the Angelic Creature

• On the Magician’s Chastity

• Militant Christianity

XVI. Hate for Hitler

• Chronicle 1936–1945

• I Am an American

• Morally a Good Time

• Thank You, Mr. Hitler!

• This Man Is My Brother

• The Jews Will Endure

• Shameless but Fascinating

• Self-Love

• It Is Always a Life Story

• Oh—Really?

• War and Peace

• Bermann and Landshoff

• In the White House

• Golo, Klaus, and Erika

• Heinrich

• Frighteningly Leftist Goings-on

• Brecht

• Prize Recipient and Shadow President

XVII. Doctor Faustus

• Chronicle 1943–1949

• Thomas Faust?

• Retouchings

• The Herz Woman at Table, Unfortunately

• Schwabing and Polling, Palestrina and Pacific Palisades

• The Adviser

• The Real Thing

• Rudi and Paul

• Not Serenus, but Adrian

• The Devil

• The Emotionalism of Impurity

• Klöpfgeissel

• Superbia et Gratia

XVIII. Pain and Glory

• Chronicle 1945–1955

• No, They Are Not a Great People

• Come As a Good Doctor!

• Why I Will Not Return to Germany

• Kästner

• Hausmann

• Vikko, Pree, and Godfather Bertram

• The Goethe Trip and Its Consequences

• Russian Mink

• The Fireman

• Why I Will Not Remain in America

• Einstein and the Bomb

• The Little Planet in a Corner of the Universe

• Showered with the Gold of Praise

XIX. To the Last Breath

• Instead of a Chronicle

• Soit

• Franzl

• The Eroticism of Michelangelo

• Mann As Madame

• Sin and Grace

XX. Final Things

• Liebestod and Skeleton

• Time Runs Out

• Consecration and Transfiguration

• Eternal Life

• Real Dying

• Whispers of the Dead

• Figure Credits

• Index of Names

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