Tagebücher 1940-1943

Tagebücher #5

by Thomas Mann

Mit dem Erscheinen von Thomas Manns Tagebüchern hat sich unser Bild des Autors und unser Verständnis seines Werks nachhaltig verändert. In den erhaltenen Journalen von 1918-1921 und ab 1933 bis zum Tod 1955 verbindet Thomas Mann alltägliche Beobachtungen mit dem Weltgeschehen und schreibt so "den Roman eines Lebens": es ist "der umfassendste, welthaltigste, rührendste, aberwitzigste Roman", den der Autor je geschrieben hat - "und wie wunderbar geschrieben!" (Volker Hage)

Genres: German Literature

1204 pages, Hardcover

About the author

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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.