Thomas Mann
Born 6 June 1875 · Died 12 August 1955
From Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany · Nationality: United States, Czechoslovakia, German Reich · Writes fiction and nonfiction
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer.
His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers.
When Hitler came to power in 1933, the anti-fascist Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the most known exponents of the so called Exilliteratur.
Quotes
“Beauty can pierce one like pain.”
Chapter 2 “A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.”
Essay on Freud 16 May 1929 “The writer’s joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.”
Death in Venice, Chapter 4 “Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown.”
The Magic Mountain, Chapter 5 “A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Essays of Three Decades 1942
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Thomas Mann in order
Books by Thomas Mann in the order they were published, from Buddenbrooks (1909) to A Montanha Mágica (2016).
- 1Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks1909 - 2Royal Highness
Royal Highness1909 - 3Der Tod in Venedig
Der Tod in Venedig1913 - 4Betrachtungen Eines Unpolitischen
Betrachtungen Eines Unpolitischen1919 - 5Tonio Kröger
Tonio Kröger1921 - 6A Man and His Dog
A Man and His Dog1923 - 7Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man
Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man1924 - 8The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain1924 - 9Death in Venice
Death in Venice1925 - 10Joseph and His Brothers
Joseph and His Brothers1934 - 11Joseph in Egypt
Joseph in Egypt1936 - 12Lotte in Weimar
Lotte in Weimar1939 - 13The Transposed Heads
The Transposed Heads1941 - 14Joseph the Provider
Joseph the Provider1943 - 15Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus1947 - 16Essays of Three Decades
Essays of Three Decades1947 - 17The Holy Sinner
The Holy Sinner1951 - 18The Black Swan
The Black Swan1954 - 19A Montanha Mágica
A Montanha Mágica2016 - 20Dr.FaustusDr.Faustus
- 21Little HerrFriedemann, and Other StoriesLittle HerrFriedemann, and Other Stories
- 22Thomas Mann's "Goethe and Tolstoy"
Thomas Mann's "Goethe and Tolstoy"