Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann

by Frederic Spotts

Book Overview

Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann's comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the author of Mephisto, the literary enfant terrible of the Weimar era produced seven novels, a dozen plays, four biographies, and three autobiographies--among them the first works in Germany to tackle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300218001
• ISBN13: 9780300218008
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"