Thomas Mann is one of the most celebrated German writers in history, and he owes part of this fame to the United States, where he held citizenship when he died in 1955 at the age of eighty. In 1929 he received the Nobel Prize in literature. Until then, h...

Thomas Mann is one of the most celebrated German writers in history, and he experienced this phenomenal acclaim within his own lifetime. In 1938, the year he left Europe for exile in the United States, Mann was sixty-three years old, with seventeen years...

The German novelist and essayist Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was perhaps the most influential and representative German author of his time. Born in the free Hanseatic city of Lübeck on the Baltic Sea, the second son of a north German patrician merchant...

ON THE MOUNTAIN Rescue attempt, nonsense By Thomas Bernhard Translated from the German By Russell Stockman The Marlboro Press 143 pp. $16.95 THOMAS BERNHARD, who died of a heart attack in 1989 at the age of 58, is regarded in some circles as...

SOMEWHERE at home, either mixed in among the Books I Must Immediately Read Lest I Be Exposed as an Intellectual Charlatan or buried under a box of what my Beloved Spouse acidly refers to as "your important manuscripts," are three or four guides to...