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...

The thought of reading all the critical literature published on Doktor Faustus from 1947 to 1992 is a horrifying one. That horror can be read through the otherwise sedate prose of John Fetzer's study of the reception of Mann's novel. His book is...

Dysfunctional friendship has become an ethical and political dilemma in postmodernity. In the dysfunctional nature of friendship, strangeness is a crucial factor. This strangeness is the recognition of alterity and the lack of relationship of otherness to the self. In this regard, two...