Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood devoted little Katja Mann, wife of Thomas Mann, told of shielding the nervous novelist from Nazis while they were flying the English Channel last spring: "He came back and wanted my seat by the window, but I made him stay up in front. He is very naive and seldom knows what is going on, so I didn't tell him until we reached London that there were German airplanes flying all around us. If they had seen him, he surely would have been recognized and arrested. The Germans flew past us and close beside us, looking me over...
...BELOVED RETURNS-Thomas Mann -Knopf...
Continually, in all his life's work, Thomas Mann has interested himself in the study of the artist, the superior man, the genius. Usually his method has been elaborately symbolic; in The Beloved Returns it is direct. On the scale of such colossal fables as Joseph and The Magic Mountain this new novel must be classified as "minor"; and, relative to their all-but-unfathomable subtleties, it might seem almost transparent. But it is by no means minor, by no means so straight-edged as it looks. To the readers whom it will bring to the edge of their...
...between those two movements is set the heart and brain of the work, an 80-page interior monologue by Goethe himself, which must stand next to Death in Venice among Mann's more paralyzing tours de force, the more astonishing in that it is, in certain important respects, so crude...
...this great chapter, Mann makes a flat denial of those stream-of-consciousness subtleties whereby James Joyce put to shame all "psychological" fiction before and since Ulysses. Mann's own model, down to the very bumpiness and cantankerousness of the style, is the dramatic monologue as developed by Browning. Many of his gripes, grouchings and mph-mph mannerisms are hardly superior to those of a young "character" actor playing an old man. Between these strict archaic boundaries he constructs a complexity of invention, scholarly research, literary criticism, topical satire, prophecy, pure poetry. In every refraction, like the turnings...