Thomas Mann's War : Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters / Tobias Boes.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781501745010
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 -- Political activity
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Public opinion
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war
- Politics and literature -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Authors, Exiled -- Political activity -- United States
- Authors, German -- 20th century -- Political and social views
- 833/.912 23
- PT2625.A44 Z54256 2019
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the German envoy to America -- The teacher of Germany -- The greatest living man of letters -- Interlude I: Joseph in Egypt -- The first citizen of the international republic of letters -- Interlude II: Lotte in Weimar -- Hitler's most intimate enemy -- Interlude III: the tables of the law -- A blooming flower -- Interlude IV: Joseph the provider -- The loyal American subject -- Interlude V: Doctor Faustus -- The isolated world citizen.
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"During the period of his American exile in the 1930s and 1940s, the German author Thomas Mann became one of the most prominent anti-fascists in the United States, and in so doing forever transformed our understanding of what a modern writer is and should be doing"-- Provided by publisher.
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