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PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-101681375311

ISBN-139781681375311

eBay Product ID (ePID)24050096097

Product Key Features

Book TitleReflections of a Nonpolitical Man

Number of Pages592 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicEuropean / German, Europe / Germany, Military / World War I, Literary, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism

GenreLiterary Criticism, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorThomas Mann

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight21 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2020-013687

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Without the impassioned patriotic document it is impossible to see Mann's artistic and political development in the right perspective." --Erich Heller "At long last, a magnificent full translation of Mann's untimely masterpiece . . . an obviously complex and profound work." -- Choice "Nationalist, patriotic, conservative, and spiritually autobiographical . . . it is a strange, enormously, clever (also foolish) and (in an alarming sense) fascinating piece, of sustained, often anguished and sometimes contorted eloquence." --D. J. Enright, Times Literary Supplement "Reflections helps us to understand the problem that has not gone away: the dilemma of the intellectual (the writer, the artist) in politics." --Walter Laqueur, The New York Times Book Review

Dewey Decimal833/.912

SynopsisA 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 come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth fighting and even dying for, or, at least when it came to Mann himself, writing about. Mann immediately picked up his pen to compose a paean to the German cause. Soon after, his elder brother and lifelong rival, the novelist Heinrich Mann, responded with a no less determined denunciation. Thomas took it as an unforgivable stab in the back. The bitter dispute between the brothers would swell into the strange, tortured, brilliant, sometimes perverse literary performance that is Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man , a book that Mann worked on and added to throughout the war and that bears an intimate relation to his postwar masterpiece The Magic Mountain . Wild and ungainly though Mann's reflections can be, they nonetheless constitute, as Mark Lilla demonstrates in a new introduction, a key meditation on the freedom of the artist and the distance between literature and politics. The NYRB Classics edition includes two additional essays by Mann: "Thoughts in Wartime" (1914), translated by Mark Lilla and Cosima Mattner; and "On the German Republic" (1922), translated by Lawrence Rainey., 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 come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth fighting and even dying for, or, at least when it came to Mann himself, writing about. Mann immediately picked up his pen to compose a paean to the German cause. Soon after, his elder brother and lifelong rival, the novelist Heinrich Mann, responded with a no less determined denunciation. Thomas took it as an unforgivable stab in the back. The bitter dispute between the brothers would swell into the strange, tortured, brilliant, sometimes perverse literary performance that is Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man , a book that Mann worked on and added to throughout the war and that bears an intimate relation to his postwar masterpiece The Magic Mountain . Wild andungainly though Mann's reflections can be, they nonetheless constitute, as Mark Lilla demonstrates in a new introduction, a key meditation on the freedom of the artist and the distance between literature and politics. The NYRB Classics edition includes two additional essays by Mann- "Thoughts in Wartime" (1914), translated by Mark Lilla and Cosima Mattner; and "On the German Republic" (1922), translated by Lawrence Rainey.

LC Classification NumberPT2625.A44B513 2021