Thomas Mann's war : literature, politics, and the world republic of letters
Boes, Tobias, 1976-2019
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In 'Thomas Mann's War', Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as 'Buddenbrooks' and 'The Magic Mountain', began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having fled his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books. Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, Mann undertook successful lecture tours of the country and penned widely-read articles that alerted US audiences and readers to the dangers of complacency in the face of Nazism's existential threat.
Main title:
Author:
Boes, Tobias, 1976-, author
Imprint:
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2019]©2019
Collation:
xvii, 354 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781501744990 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 -- Political activityAuthors, German -- 20th century -- Political and social viewsAuthors, Exiled -- Political activity -- United StatesPolitics and literature -- Germany -- History -- 20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the warWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Public opinionLiterature
BRN:
287732