Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art: A Biography

by Hermann Kurzke

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691070695
• ISBN13: 9780691070698
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.4"