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Translated by Leslie Wilson.
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This vivid, sometimes tragic, and often humorous literary biography brings to life as never before the extraordinary talent and complex person who was Thomas Mann. Engrossing vignettes enable us to enter Mann's life and work from unique angles. We meet the difficult, even unsavory private man: hypochondriac and nervous, narcissistic and vainglorious, isolated and greedy for love, shy and often ungenerous. But we are also introduced to a man who lived an eventful life, was capable of great kindness, loved dogs, doted on his daughters, and listened to Jack Benny. We experience Mann's tragedy as the quintessential German forced by the rise of National Socialism first into inner exile and then into real exile in Switzerland, Princeton, and California. His letters from this time reveal the torment that exile represented for a writer whose work, indeed whose very self, was inextricably bound up with the German language. The book provides fresh and sometimes startling insights into both famous and little-known episodes in Mann's life and into his writing--the only realm in which he ever felt free.
It shows how love, death, religion, and politics were not merely themes in Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and other works, but were woven into the fabric of his existence and preoccupied him unrelentingly. It also teases out what is known about what Mann considered his celibate homoeroticism and what others have labeled closeted homosexuality. In particular, we learn about his affection for the young man who inspired the character of Tadzio in Death in Venice. And, against the unfocused accusations of anti-Semitism that have been leveled at Mann, the book examines in human detail his relationships with Jewish writers, friends, and family members. This is the richest available portrait of Thomas Mann as man and writer--the place to start for anyone wanting to know anything about his life, work, or times.
Contents
Translator's Preface xiii I. Childhood and School Days Chronicle 1875-1894 2 Horoscope 3 Sunday Bells 4 In the Shadow of St. Mary's Church 5 Thunder and Lightning 7 Othellos 9 Lead Soldiers and Playing Gods 10 Your Sapiency and Lubeck's Most Beautiful Woman 12 Bed and Sleep, Elegiacal 19 Stretch, Curtail, Corrupt 20 Flunking 24 The Autodidact 25 Fellow Students 27 II. Early Love and First Writings Chronicle 1889-1893 32 First Love: Armin Martens 33 Williram Timpe 37 The Sunken Treasure 42 Lost Poems and Dramas 43 Spring Storm and Other Immature Things 45 Girls in Lubeck 47 III. Before Fame Chronicle 1894-1901 52 Deciding for His Mother 54 Freedom 55 Talented and Chosen 58 A Metaphysical Magic Potion 60 Klarchen 61 Quiet in All the Cellars! 64 Knowledge Is the Deepest Torment in the World 68 Elbow Room: Little Herr Friedemann 69 Primal Odds and Ends 71 The Opera Glass 76 General Dr. von Staat 78 Italy 83 "Amen!" Means "Enough!" 84 A Scavenger 87 But the Little Hunchback, Too 89 IV. Thomas and Heinrich Chronicle 1875-1914 96 Papa's Death and Goodwill 98 In Inimicos 98 Lorenzo and the Prior 102 Correspondence 104 Plebeians and Chandalas, Renaissance Men and the Ideal of Feminine Artistic Beauty 108 The Hunt for Love 109 Heinrich and Katia 112 V. The Path to Marriage Chronicle 1900-1905 116 A Stroke of Luck 117 Tonio Kroger 118 I Love You! My God ... I Love You! 120 The Flirtation Squabble 128 Paul's Death 132 Chastity 133 "Du"--Informal Address 134 Literature and Life 135 Mary Smith 137 Money Matches 139 The Courtship of Katia Pringsheim 141 Prince and Algebra 149 Engagement and Wedding 150 Katia, Fictionally 153 VI. Ambitious Plans Chronicle 1905-1914 160 Fame! 161 Fiorenza 162 Heroism: Frederick the Great 164 The Unsuccessful Bilse Piece and Other Activities 165 Workday and Alcohol 168 Why Did I Get Married? 169 Maya 170 The Train Wreck 171 The State, Our Father, and an Enlightened Monarch 172 Censor Anti-Censor 174 How Jappe and Do Escobar Had a Fight 175 Death in Venice 177 A Death in Polling 179 Sense of Family, a Snapshot 182 Plans of Doing Away with Oneself 185 VII. Jews The Blood of the Walsungs and Doctor Sammet 188 Anti-Semitism? 191 The Jewish Girl 193 Thomas Mann--Wasn't He a Jew? 194 The Harden Trial 196 Alfred Kerr 198 Theodor Lessing 205 A Wretched Man 210 VIII. War Chronicle 1914-1918 216 Soldier and Military Man Aschenbach 217 1914in Letters 220 Military Service 223 Thomas Mann and the Grand Coalition 224 The Ordeal 226 Zola 227 Saying Everything 229 Eroticism and Irony 230 Fratricidal War 231 Opinions 234 Attempt at a Reconciliation 235 Mysticism 239 Church 241 Faith 243 IX. Attempts at Orientation Chronicle 1918-1921 248 Heinrich 249 Politics: Theory and Practice 250 The Bavarian Soviet Republic 254 Revolution in Russia 257 Conservative Revolution 263 On the Jewish Question 264 Domestics 266 A Comfort: Dogs 270 X. Family, No Fun Either Chronicle 1918-1933 274 Poor Little Katia 276 Loneliness 281 Father of Six 282 Erika 287 Klaus 289 Golo 291 Monika 293 Elisabeth 294 Michael 295 XI. In the Magic Mountain Chronicle 1912-1924 298 We Phantoms along the Path 299 The Pyramid 300 The Drift Net 301 Boneless 304 The Most Sensuous Thing I Ever Did 305 Smoking 307 Kings Know No Irony 308 Things Most Questionable 310 From Life to His Work 316 XII. Republican Politics Chronicle 1922-1933 320 The Reconciliation with Heinrich and the Shift to the Republic 322 The Vanquisher of the Romantic 324 Trillion-Dollar Eggs 326 The Fight against Fascism 328 Seven Reasons for the Astonishing Politicization of Thomas Mann 331 Johst, Hubscher, and Pilot Rogues 333 Storm Troopers in Tuxedos 336 Ernst Junger 338 XIII. Homoeroticism of Midlife A Hesitant Coming Out 342 Boys 1918-1921 343 Weber, Wyneken, Wickersdorf 347 Monstrous Indecencies 350 Impotence 351 Eros As a Statesman 352 On Marriage 353 Against Paragraph 175 354 Klaus Heuser and Amphitryon 354 A Candid Confessor 359 A Don Quixote of Love 361 XIV. Ostracized Chronicle 1933-1936 364 Hitler and Friedemann 366 The Suitcase 368 Let the World Know Me 369 House, Heins, Heydrich 371 Where Did the Hate Come From? 375 Towering Alone 376 The Great Disappointment 378 A Political Act 381 The Liberation 383 XV. Joseph and His Brothers Chronicle 1924-1943 390 Anti-Bilse? 392 Icing on the Cake 395 Thamar and Agnes Meyer 397 Father and Mother, Katia and Paul 400 Churchill and the Bible 405 God, the Father, and the Angelic Creature 407 On the Magician's Chastity 412 Militant Christianity 414 XVI. Hate for Hitler Chronicle 1936-1945 416 I Am an American 419 Morally a Good Time 419 Thank You, Mr. Hitler! 422 This Man Is My Brother 423 The Jews Will Endure 425 Shameless but Fascinating 427 Self-Love 430 It Is Always a Life Story 431 Oh--Really? 436 War and Peace 439 Bermann and Landshoff 440 In the White House 442 Golo, Klaus, and Erika 443 Heinrich 449 Frighteningly Leftist Goings-on 452 Brecht 454 Prize Recipient and Shadow President 455 XVII. Doctor Faustus Chronicle 1943-1949 460 Thomas Faust? 462 Retouchings 465 The Herz Woman at Table, Unfortunately 466 Schwabing and Polling, Palestrina and Pacific Palisades 470 The Adviser 473 The Real Thing 477 Rudi and Paul 479 Not Serenus, but Adrian 481 The Devil 483 The Emotionalism of Impurity 485 Klopfgeissel 487 Superbia et Gratia 490 XVIII. Pain and Glory Chronicle 1945-1955 494 No, They Are Not a Great People 496 Come As a Good Doctor! 498 Why I Will Not Return to Germany 499 Kastner 501 Hausmann 502 Vikko, Pree, and Godfather Bertram 503 The Goethe Trip and Its Consequences 509 Russian Mink 513 The Fireman 514 Why I Will Not Remain in America 516 Einstein and the Bomb 519 The Little Planet in a Corner of the Universe 521 Showered with the Gold of Praise 528 XIX. To the Last Breath Instead of a Chronicle 532 Soit 533 Franzl 534 The Eroticism of Michelangelo 544 Mann As Madame 546 Sin and Grace 548 XX. Final Things Liebestod and Skeleton 554 Time Runs Out 558 Consecration and Transfiguration 560 Eternal Life 562 Real Dying 564 Whispers of the Dead 566 Figure Credits 571 Index of Names 573
