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Thomas Mann

Germany

About

German novelist and essayist (1875–1955) and Nobel laureate who explored the tension between the bourgeois world and the life of the artist. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and eventually settled in the United States.

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The Magic Mountain

Young Hans Castorp visits his cousin at a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium for three weeks and stays for seven years, engaging in intellectual and philosophical debates with other patients as Europe drifts toward war. Mann's most ambitious novel.

Death in Venice

A celebrated German writer travels to Venice for rest and becomes obsessed with the beauty of a Polish boy, Tadzio, even as cholera sweeps through the city. One of the most formally perfect novellas in German literature.

The decline of a wealthy merchant family in Lübeck over four generations as bourgeois values give way to artistic temperament and physical decay. Mann's debut novel, written when he was 25, won him the Nobel Prize in 1929.

All Quiet on the Western Front

German soldier Paul Bäumer narrates his experiences in the trenches of World War I, watching his classmates die one by one. Mann's pacifist novel was banned and burned by the Nazis; it sold over 2.5 million copies in its first year.

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