The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300233742ISBN-10:300233744UPC:9780300233742Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, European, ModernBook Topic:German, 20th CenturySize:8.70 x 5.91 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SCH58BKB62
The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain
The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos Like many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) welcomed the outbreak of the First World War. He viewed it as a spiritual necessity, a chance to reassert German cultural dominance over Western ideas of democracy and enlightenment. Then, in 1924, he published The Magic...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300233742ISBN-10:300233744UPC:9780300233742Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, European, ModernBook Topic:German, 20th CenturySize:8.70 x 5.91 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SCH58BKB62
Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer and critic. He is the author of A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen and has contributed to numerous publications, including the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, Commonweal, and Liberties.
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