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by Thomas Mann

Romancier à grand souffle des Buddenbrook et de La Montagne magique, Thomas Mann n’a cessé en même temps d’être fasciné par l’art de la nouvelle, fait d’intensité et de concision. En témoignent ces textes écrits à divers moments de sa vie, et qui révèlent un aspect particulier de son génie d’écrivain.
La passion sensuelle qui conduit un frère et une sœur à outrepasser le tabou de l’inceste ; un chagrin d’amour enfantin, dans l’Allemagne chaotique et déboussolée des années 1920 : en traitant avec une telle subtilité des thèmes et des ambiances très différents, Thomas Mann nous impressionne par la rigueur et la force de son écriture, la lucidité et l’humanité de son regard.

160 pages, Pocket Book

First published April 1, 2005

About the author

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See also:
Serbian: Tomas Man

Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, 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, 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 best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.

Reviews

[Auxane]

J’ai pas compris

[Justine]

extremely well written, but not really entertaining ... I prefered Death in Venice !