…that is the sound, almost lost in space, the cosmic ozone of another poem, wherein spirits in golden barks traverse the heavenly sea and the ringing course of gleaming songs wreathes itself down and wells up again… This was the entire troubled life of the great groundbreaking composer Adrian Leverkühn…Īll about him was coldness – and how do I feel, using this word, which he himself, in an uncanny connection, once also set down? Life and experience can give to single syllables an accent utterly divorcing them from their common meaning and lending them an aura of horror, which nobody understands who has not learned them in that awful context. “…a night, where it doesn’t get dark for the lightnings.” Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. 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. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

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