Name: Mann: Two Stories: Unordnung Und Fruhes Leid/Mario Und Der Zauberer
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Author: Thomas Mann
ISBN: 9781853993664

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Mann: Two Stories: Unordnung Und Fruhes Leid/Mario Und Der Zauberer

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Mann

Other

William Witte

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 0.9 cm

Weight

0.17 kg.

ISBN13

9781853993664

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "Mann: Two Stories: Unordnung Und Fruhes Leid/Mario Und Der Zauberer"

Thomas Mann, Germany's most successful writer of prose fiction, was born in 1875 and died in 1955. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. These two stories, from Mann's middle period, concern major problems facing Germany between the wars: the first deals with the chaos of economic, social and moral values in the early twenties, and the second with the enslavement of a society by a fanatical and hypnotic dictator. In both pieces Mann's moral values are delicately pointed by his omnipresent irony.

Thomas Mann

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Thomas Mann (Lübeck, June 6, 1875 – Zurich, August 12, 1955) was a prominent German writer, novelist, essayist, and social critic, considered one of the great exponents of 20th century literature and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. His work is characterized by a deep analysis of bourgeois life, the psychology of the artist, and the spiritual crisis of modern Europe, drawing inspiration from philosophical and literary currents such as those of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer.

Mann gained international fame with his first novel, Buddenbrooks (1901), a family saga that portrays the decline of a merchant family over four generations, a work for which he received the Nobel. Other key titles in his production include The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg, 1924), an allegory about European society before World War I; Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig, 1912), considered one of his most influential novellas; and Doctor Faustus (1947), which examines German culture in the context of the rise of Nazism.

Thomas Mann's work is renowned for its symbolic richness, irony, psychological depth, and masterful exploration of the dilemmas of European culture, influencing generations of writers and readers around the world.

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