Which should be readily apparent, because if I were not, this book would probably have received only two stars from me-not as a reflection of its literary quality per se, but rather as a reflection of my own reaction to it. 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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