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Tonio Kröger, suivi de Le Petit Monsieur Friedemann, Heure difficile, L'Enfant prodige, Un petit bonheur

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Tonio Kröger est un jeune homme d'origine bourgeoise mais bohème de nature. Esprit tourmenté, il mène une vie solitaire et comme séparée de celle des autres hommes. Il ne peut vivre sans constamment s'interroger sur lui-même et sur l'oeuvre qu'il crée, alors qu'il n'aspirerait - croit-il - qu'à être comme ceux qui ne s'analysent pas, ne rêvent pas, et se contentent de suivre leurs instincts sociaux. En un mot, il rêve, en vain, de vivre comme Hans et Inge, tous deux jeunes et beaux, blonds aux yeux bleus et qui ont tous deux tenus une grande place dans sa vie affective. Thomas Mann évoque la douloureuse solitude d'un être d'exception avec un art qui fait de ce récit un petit chef-d'oeuvre.

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) fut non seulement le plus grand romancier allemand de la première moitié de ce siècle, mais l'une des figures les plus éminentes de la littérature européenne de l'époque. Il obtint le Prix Nobel en 1929.

206 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 1994

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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.

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