This selection of Thomas Mann's letters, first published in a Vintage edition in 1975, spans sixty-six years from the first, written by a precocious fourteen-year-old, to the last, composed on his deathbed by the eighty-year-old Nobel Laureate, and includes letters to family and to such celebrated contemporaries as Gide, Freud, Brecht, Einstein, Hesse, Schoenberg, and Adorno. Covering two world wars and exile in Europe and America, Mann's letters offer the reader insight into the concerns and values of one of the great writers of our time.
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"Mann's correspondence was seldom dull and never perfunctory he justly credits himself with 'bringing linguistic passion to letters'. . . . Though he wrote famous anti-Nazi letters, as well as scores to family and intimate friends, what emerges most is a deep commitment to German cultural tradition. He loved his language and those who mastered it, pre-eminently Goethe." -- Martha Duffy, Time
"There is enough here to allow us to see with our own eyes [the] true progress of this artist through the disasters of history in his lifetime. . . . No biography, not even an autobiography, can give this sense of the immediate living of a life." -- John Thompson, Harper's Magazine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"There is enough here to allow us to see with our own eyes [the] true progress of this artist through the disasters of history in his lifetime. . . . No biography, not even an autobiography, can give this sense of the immediate living of a life." -- John Thompson, Harper's Magazine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Text: English, German (translation)
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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