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41. The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Institutions of American Democracy) by Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2008-08-29)
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Excellent non partisan overview of the declining state of our first branch.
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Yep, Still Broken
Important Book
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42. Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull by Thomas Mann | |
Unknown Binding:
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(1975)
Asin: B003MQXCQ8 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
43. Thomas Mann: The Ironic German by Thomas Mann, Erich Heller | |
Paperback: 316
Pages
(1981-03-12)
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44. The Real Tadzio: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and the Boy Who Inspired It by Gilbert Adair | |
Paperback: 112
Pages
(2003-07-31)
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Great book!
A Private Life Made Public
A Fascinating Approach to Art as Life vs. Life as Art
A Fascinating Approach to Art is Life vs. Life is Art The story has been published in many languages, served as the subject for Luchino Visconti's hauntingly beautiful film (1971)by the same name, and resulted in Benjamin Britten's last opera (1973) also with the name "Death in Venice" in tact.Gender studies writers claim this novella to be one of the most successful stories of same sex love, and other famous writers took the lead from Mann in putting into novel form the 'unspeakable subject'.Gilbert Adair, a successful British writer ("Love and Death on Long Island" is a stunning book and was made into a fine film with the brilliant portrayal by John Hurt of the Thomas Mann-inspired character) has treated us with a significant bit of investigation and shows in well written prose and illustrated by many photographs that the storyof "Death in Venice" is actually Mann's reporting on an incident that really did happen: Mann was in Venice in 1911, encountered a rich young Polish boy (one Wladyslaw Moes) while staying on the Lido, met all the same characters he later depicted, escaped the cholera epidemic that threatened Venice, felt the desire for the beautiful lad, but in Mann's case he did not die on the beach watching his desired young dream lad wandering away into the sea waves. Adair then follows the life of the real 'Tadzio' through his wealthy years in Poland, his trials during the time between WWI and WWII, his loss of all of his wealth in the post war period icluding his incarceration in a POW camp, his marriage and subsequent loss of his son, his response to seeing himself depicted in Visconti's movie version of Mann's novella, and his subsequent death in 1986.This is a fine bit of history, well presented with accompanying photographs of "Tadzio", his friends, his family, and his disappearance into obscurity while his impetus for Thomas Mann's novella lives on. Adair also examines the Visconti film and the Britten opera and manages to tie a century's worth of information into a short, eminently readable book.This is a must read for everyone who has fallen in love with this famous story.
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45. Thomas Mann's the Magic Mountain (Modern Critical Interpretations) | |
Hardcover: 131
Pages
(1986-02)
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46. Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art. A Biography by Hermann Kurzke | |
Hardcover: 752
Pages
(2002-08-12)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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 man who lived an eventful life, was capable of great kindness, loved dogs, doted on his daughters, and listened to Jack Benny. We experience Mann's tragedy as the quintessential German forced by the rise of National Socialism first into inner exile and then into real exile in Switzerland, Princeton, and California. His letters from this time reveal the torment that exile represented for a writer whose work, indeed whose very self, was inextricably bound up with the German language. The book provides fresh and sometimes startling insights into both famous and little-known episodes in Mann's life and into his writing--the only realm in which he ever felt free. It shows how love, death, religion, and politics were not merely themes in Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and other works, but were woven into the fabric of his existence and preoccupied him unrelentingly. It also teases out what is known about what Mann considered his celibate homoeroticism and what others have labeled closeted homosexuality. In particular, we learn about his affection for the young man who inspired the character of Tadzio in Death in Venice. And, against the unfocused accusations of anti-Semitism that have been leveled at Mann, the book examines in human detail his relationships with Jewish writers, friends, and family members. This is the richest available portrait of Thomas Mann as man and writer--the place to start for anyone wanting to know anything about his life, work, or times. Customer Reviews (2)
Dissensio? If it is sophomoric to assume that an author's life is completely mirrored in his novels, than it is the greater fool's error to believe that there is such a thing as an objective biography -- compiled from some sort of secret correspondence, some sort of puzzle contained in the actions of author's life, which will englighten a literary work further. Kurzke respects a profound idea in his work: Mann wished to remembered by his fiction, and those letters which amplify his career. Frankly, Thomas Mann is a figure in world literature who respected the idea of leaving for posterity exactly what he wished to said about him. Apparently, this is insufficient to repeat. It seems better to do what Joseph Frank did with his five volume Dostoevsky biography (everyone applauds this biography) -- to pour over the notes and sketches of rough drafts, as well as his surly day-to-day complaints about neighbors and his hemorrhoids. Frank admonishes Anna Dostoevskaya for trying to etch out and destroy parts of the notebooks that she did not wish to be public. Mann obviously succeeded in protecting himself from vulture professors and writers who would years down the road be searching for material to publish to advance their curriculum vitae. As Settembrini might have said, a fixation on the concrete banal and prosaic facts about an author's life is an (intellectual) disease typical of the century just past. Kurzke's attitude and approach share nothing of this.
Still Waiting Herman Kurzke's Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art, A Biography, is a hoax, for it simply is not a biography. The book is instead nearly 600 pages of literacy criticism, and sophomoric literary criticism at that. Kurzke makes the classic undergraduate error of assuming that the artist's work perfectly mirrors his life and that the artist is his characters. Again and again Kurzke strives--and fails--to provide insight into the life of Mann merely by delving into Mann's writing. Consider this passage from page 73: "Thomas Mann's favorite flower was the Marshall Niel rose. He 'is' [Little Herr] Friedemann, the reading and violin-playing ascetic who has succeeded in chaining up the dogs in the cellar. The basic motif for his life and actions is fear of passion, fear that the carefully tended equilibrium of his life could tip over, fear of the return of what was repressed and the collapse of true construction of art. The psycholoanalyst Krowkowski in The Magic Mountain knows with pleasure how to make it perfectly clear."So we learn what Mann's favorite flower was, but nothing more, and the unmistakable tone of undergraduate assertion here makes us shudder. The absolute dearth of information about Mann is inexcusable, and those who are familiar with Mann's works, as certainly all who would buy this book must be, do not need someone of Kurzke's limited skills to tell us what those works are about. One need only read "Death in Venice," for example, to know it is about suppressed homosexuality, and one need only read Mann's 1918-1939 published diaries (1982) to know that Mann is addressing his own suppressed (or not) sexual inclinations. In sum, this book is a waste of time, .... ... Read more |
47. JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS COMPLETE by THOMAS MANN | |
Paperback:
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(1978)
Asin: B0011V5EUI Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
48. School For Barbarians by Erika Mann | |
Hardcover: 164
Pages
(2008-06-13)
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49. Max Weber and Thomas Mann: Calling and the Shaping of the Self by Harvey Goldman | |
Paperback: 295
Pages
(1991-11-06)
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50. Essays, Bd.6, Meine Zeit by Thomas Mann | |
Hardcover: 728
Pages
(1997-03-01)
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51. Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 136
Pages
(1999-04-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description The preoccupations are here as well; each story in the collectioninvolves sexuality, the position of women in society, morality, andart. Six Early Stories will certainly be of interest to ThomasMann enthusiasts, but even for those who have never read anything elseby him, this collection is worth reading. Even in his juvenilia,Mann's work demonstrates the skill, intelligence, and courage of abygone literary age. Customer Reviews (1)
Post-Romantic Fiction |
52. Essays of Three Decades by Thomas Mann | |
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(1947-06)
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A masterpiece |
53. Thomas Mann's Death in Venice: A Novella and Its Critics (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) by Ellis Shookman | |
Hardcover: 320
Pages
(2003-07-13)
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54. The Oxford Guide to Library Research by Thomas Mann | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2005-11-01)
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Going to research? Make it thorough. Here's how.
Key to accessing
A Researcher's Best Friend
This book should be mandatory for all students
Excellent Tool for Any Researcher of Library Patron A MUST have for anyone who spends time in the library.You do not have to be a professional researcher or academician to get useful tools from this book.My kids have read the book as well, and their research projects for school improved dramatically. I strongly recommend this book is you plan any research projects in the future. ... Read more |
55. Der Tod in Venedig Und Andere Erzahlungen by Thomas Mann | |
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(1966-01-01)
Asin: B0040YJ3ZK Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
56. Thomas Mann: The World as Will and Representation. by Fritz Kaufmann | |
Hardcover:
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(1957)
Asin: B000NUMQOA Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
57. Freud, Goethe, Wagner by Thomas Mann | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(1937-08-02)
Asin: B003N0PVNK Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
58. Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings: Thomas Mann (German Library) by Frederick A. Lubich, Harold Bloom | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(1999-04-01)
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59. The Thomas Mann Reader by Joseph Warner Angell | |
Hardcover:
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(1950)
Asin: B000H47ENK Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
60. COLLECTED STORIES by Thomas Mann | |
Hardcover: 890
Pages
(2001)
Isbn: 1857151968 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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