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New York Review of Books
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New York Review of Books
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May 2021
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A classic, controversial book exploring German culture and identity by the author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, now back in print.
When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence that he had anatomized in Death in Venice had come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth fighting and even dying for, or, at least when it came to Mann himself, writing about. Mann immediately picked up his pen to compose a paean to the German cause. Soon after, his elder brother and lifelong rival, the novelist Heinrich Mann, responded with a no less determined denunciation. Thomas took it as an unforgivable stab in the back. The bitter dispute between the brothers would swell into the strange, tortured, brilliant, sometimes perverse literary performance that is Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, a book that Mann worked on and added to throughout the war and that bears an intimate relation to his postwar masterpiece The Magic Mountain. Wild and ungainly though Mann's reflections can be, they nonetheless constitute, as Mark Lilla demonstrates in a new introduction, a key meditation on the freedom of the artist and the distance between literature and politics. The NYRB Classics edition includes two additional essays by Mann: "Thoughts in Wartime" (1914), translated by Mark Lilla and Cosima Mattner; and "On the German Republic" (1922), translated by Lawrence Rainey.
Author
Thomas Mann
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Published
May 2021
Weight
586g
Dimensions
125 x 201 x 34 mm
ISBN
9781681375311
ISBN-10
1681375311
Eden Code
5288886
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Author/Creator: Thomas Mann
ISBN: 9781681375311
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date: May 2021
Weight: 586g
Dimensions: 125 x 201 x 34 mm
Eden Code: 5288886