This complete edition of letters and documents between Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann brings together two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both of whom found refuge in ...Los Angeles during the Nazi era. Culminating in the famous dispute over Mann's novel Doctor Faustus, the correspondence, diary entries, and related articles provide a glimpse inside the private and public lives of these two great artists, the outstanding figures of the German-exile community in California. In the thicket of the controversy was Theodor Adorno, then a budding philosopher, whose contribution to the Faustus affair would make enemies of both families. Gathered here for the first time in English, the letters in this essential volume are complemented by rich primary source materials and an introduction by Germanic scholar Adrian Daub that contextualizes the impact the artists had on twentieth-century thought and culture
Zwischen Mythos und Moderne Honold, Alexander; Bauer, Matthias; Bauer, Matthias ...
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Die Josephs-Tetralogie steht – gewaltiger noch als Der Zauberberg – wie ein Zentralmassiv in der literarischen Landschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts, das viele nur ehrfurchtsvoll aus der Ferne bestaunen, ...was angesichts des Bildungs- und Unterhaltungswertes gerades dieses Erzählwerkes höchst bedauerlich ist. Diejenigen, die sich diesem Werk nähern und den Versuch unternehmen, die Bedeutungstiefe der von Thomas Mann aufgeschichteten Stoffmassen zu durchdringen, sind gut beraten, sich an die Selbstauskünfte des Autors zu halten: Er hat in Tagebüchern, Briefen und Reden die Sedimente der Fach- und Sachbücher zur antiken Welt, zur Ägyptologie und zur Religionsgeschichte freigelegt, die von ihm im Schreibprozess konsultiert worden waren, und immer wieder auf die zeitgeschichtlichen Bezüge seines Werkes verwiesen. Der vorliegende Band folgt diesen Spuren des Dichters in Beiträgen von Alexander Honold, Iulia-Karin Patrut, Matthias Bauer, Markus Pohlmeyer, Martina Schönbächler und Vikica Matić.
In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had ...perverted.Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having fled his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books. Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, Mann undertook successful lecture tours of the country and penned widely-read articles that alerted US audiences and readers to the dangers of complacency in the face of Nazism's existential threat. Spanning four decades, from the eve of World War I, when Mann was first translated into English, to 1952, the year in which he left an America increasingly disfigured by McCarthyism, Boes establishes Mann as a significant figure in the wartime global republic of letters.
Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Mann (1875–1955) is not only one of the leading German novelists of the twentieth century, but also one of the few to transcend national and language boundaries to achieve ...major stature in the English-speaking world. Famous from the time that he published his first novel in 1901, Mann became an iconic figure, seen as the living embodiment of German national culture. Leading scholar Todd Kontje provides a succinct introduction to Mann's life and work, discussing key moments in Mann's personal life and his career as a public intellectual, and giving readers a sense of why he is considered such an important - and controversial - writer. At the heart of the book is an informed appreciation of Mann's great literary achievements, including the novel The Magic Mountain and the haunting short story Death in Venice.
Thomas Mann owes his place in world literature to the dissemination of his works through translation. Indeed, it was the monumental success of the original English translations that earned him the ...title of 'the greatest living man of letters' during his years in American exile (1938-52). This book provides the first systematic exploration of the English versions, illustrating the vicissitudes of literary translation through a principled discussion of a major author. The study illuminates the contexts in which the translations were produced before exploring the transformations Mann's work has undergone in the process of transfer. An exemplary analysis of selected textual dimensions demonstrates the multiplicity of factors which impinge upon literary translation, leading far beyond the traditional preoccupation with issues of equivalence. Thomas Mann in English thus fills a gap both in translation studies, where Thomas Mann serves as a constant but ill-defined point of reference, and in literary studies, which has focused increasingly on the author's wider reception.
This sequel to Harvey Goldman's well-received Max Weber and
Thomas Mann continues his rich exploration of the political
and cultural critiques embodied in the more mature writings of
these two ...authors. Combining social and political thought,
intellectual history, and literary interpretation, Goldman examines
in particular Weber's "Science as a Vocation" and "Politics as a
Vocation" and Mann's The Magic Mountain and Doctor
Faustus . Goldman deals with the ways in which Weber and Mann
sought an antidote to personal and cultural weakness through
"practices" for generating strength, mastery, and power, drawing
primarily on ascetic traditions at a time when the vitality of
other German traditions was disappearing. Power and mastery
concerned both Weber and Mann, especially as they tried to resolve
problems of politics and culture in Germany. Although their
resolutions of the problems they confronted seem inadequate, they
show the significance of linking social and political thought to
conceptions of self and active worldly practices. Trenchant and
illuminating, Goldman's book is essential reading for anyone
interested in political theory, social thought, and the
intellectual history of Germany.
Thomas Mann’s “musical novel”, Doctor Faustus, tells the life story of Adrian Leverkühn, a composer to whom the Devil makes an offer of fame achieved by the discovery of a groundbreaking ...compositional technique. Mann conceived the plot as an allegory of music’s alluring and perilous role in German history, as the doom eventually met by Leverkühn is a projection of the final collapse of Nazi Germany. According to one of various schools of thought, the character of Leverkühn and his compositional output correspond with the person as well as certain aspects of the work of Gustav Mahler. The present article aims at linking up with this interpretation, along with offering a more general reflection on the essence of Mahler’s music by confronting it with the ideas expounded in Mann’s novel.
Jeffrey Meyers has written acclaimed biographies of many of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, but none has affected him as deeply as Thomas Mann. From his first youthful ...encounter withDeath in Venice,Meyers has cultivated a lifetime obsession with Mann's elegant style, penetrating irony, and insight into the life of the artist.
Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroesfollows Mann's own obsession with the artistic life through his characters: from the fiction of Gustav von Aschenbach inDeath in Veniceand the music of Adrian Leverkühn inDoctor Faustus,to Tonio Kröger's life as a writer, to the artistically minded patient Hans Castorp inThe Magic Mountain,and finally to Mann's time in America and later memoirs by his family. Mann probes deeper than perhaps any other author into questions of how an artist is formed, why he must defy conventional society, and how suffering and disease affect his work.
Admirers of Thomas Mann and of Jeffrey Meyers's biographies will find in this remarkable book the best introduction to one of the greatest writers of the modern age.
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