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Reflections of a Non-Political Man. BY IRVIN STOCK. I. Reflections of a Non-Political Man, the book for which Thomas Mann interrupted the The Magic Mountain during the years 1915-. 1918, has at last appeared in English.1 We must be glad to have it. It is altogether worthy of his genius and full of its characteristic qualities.
The Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man is a non-fiction work by German author Thomas Mann published in 1918. Unlike his brother, Thomas Mann supported the German war effort during World War I. The book, which runs to almost six hundred pages, defends the authoritarianism and 'culture' of Germany against the 'civilization' of the West.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was a novelist, critic, and essayist who received the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Germany, he fled to Switzerland and then to California after Hitler's rise to power in 1933, returning to Switzerland in 1952. His most influential works include Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain.
- Thomas Mann
19 de dic. de 2021 · Reflections can be read, almost, as an argument for a kind of radical compassion, an acceptance that real people are rarely ideal political subjects, and that this constitutes not just our deficiency but our most important virtue. Some have held up this argument as an attack avant la lettre on the intolerance of contemporary “cancel culture.”.
1 de ene. de 1983 · Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks. 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.
- Thomas Mann
Books. Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man. Thomas Mann. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1987 - Biography & Autobiography - 435 pages. "The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while ...
1 de jun. de 2021 · 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 ...
