An edition of Thomas Mann (1985)
Thomas Mann
Life as a Work of Art. A Biography
By Hermann Kurzke
Publish Date
August 12, 2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
eng
Pages
349
Description:
"This vivid, sometimes tragic, and often humorous literary biography brings to life as never before the extraordinary talent and complex person who was Thomas Mann.". "Engrossing vignettes enable us to enter Mann's life and work from unique angles. We meet the difficult, even unsavory private man: hypochondriac and nervous, narcissistic and vainglorious, isolated and greedy for love, shy and often ungenerous. But we are also introduced to a man who lived an eventful life, was capable of great kindness, loved dogs, doted on his daughters, and listened to Jack Benny."--BOOK JACKET.