This Peace

by Thomas Mann

THIS PEACE. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1938] Mann, Thomas. …

36 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1938

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

[Tarian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ein ganz kurzes Lektüreintermezzo. Ich habe die Originalausgabe mal für ein paar Euro in einem Amsterdamer Antiquariat erstanden. Besonders eindrücklich sind die Wut und die Klarheit, mit der Thomas Mann gegen den Faschismus anschreibt, insbesondere aber gegen England et alii, die durch Appeasement-Politik den Aufstieg stark begünstigten, so Mann. Er wirft ihnen politische Kleinkariertheit vor, weil sie dem Faschismus die Hand reichen, um Russland bzw die Sowietunion zu schwächen und dafür billigend die Barbareien Nazideutschlands inklusive Holocaust und Weltenbrand in Kauf nehmen - denn obwohl 1938 verfasst, zeichnet sich nach zahlreichen Annexionen der kommende Krieg natürlich ab. Ein scharfes, analytisch klares und wütendes Zeitzeugnis.

[John Cates]

Wow - a serious indightment of western Europe, particularly England - blaming them for allowing the rise of Facadism and Hitler by not pushing back more when the Nazis could have still been removed - justified by the fear of "Bolshevism" ? Written in 1938 - guy was a clairvoyant. Hmmm, any lessons for today?

[Tamara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I randomly found this in a pile of free books and brought it home with me. With a Copyright date of 1938, the author is a refugee being chased from his home by the Nazi regime and their axis of power. This little book is more of a rant on politics of England, the West and democratic countries that have sacrificed his country to Hitler to maintain the peace. A peace which will not hold.

I rated this book 3* because he has brought up questions in my mind which I don’t know the answer. He is either a lunatic or a prophet of of events to come. Winner of the 1929 Noble Prize in Literature, it’s hard to imagine he is a lunatic. So I have more reading 📖 to come.
§ Not Emotionally Challenging