The Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955 - Softcover

Mann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520069684 ISBN 13: 9780520069688

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

This selection of Thomas Mann's letters, first published in a Vintage edition in 1975, spans sixty-six years from the first, written by a precocious fourteen-year-old, to the last, composed on his deathbed by the eighty-year-old Nobel Laureate, and includes letters to family and to such celebrated contemporaries as Gide, Freud, Brecht, Einstein, Hesse, Schoenberg, and Adorno. Covering two world wars and exile in Europe and America, Mann's letters offer the reader insight into the concerns and values of one of the great writers of our time.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Mann (1875-1955), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, wrote essays as well as some of the great fiction of the twentieth century, includingBuddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Joseph and His Brothers, andDoctor Faustus.

From the Inside Flap:

"Mann's pivotal role during the Nazi period as perhaps the most eloquent spokesman for the 'other Germany' that lived in exile means that anyone studying the history of our century must begin with him. . . . These letters are literary and cultural documents that have few equals in our age."James K. Lyon, University of California, San Diego

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520069684
• ISBN 13: 9780520069688
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 482