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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

Author	: Thomas Mann
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 1969
ISBN 10	: PSU:000029905836
Pages	: 378 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (299 users)

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Download or read book Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man written by Thomas Mann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1969 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Weißt Du, wer Hermes ist?" "Ich muß gestehn, im Augenblick -." Die Eleganz der Sprache dieser fiktiven Autobiographie, ihre ironische Doppelbödigkeit erweisen ebenso wie Felix Krulls Handeln, daß er "der geschmeidige Gott der Diebe" ist. Ein Tausendsassa, der jeder neuen Situation, in die er gerät, in einem Maße gewachsen ist, als sei sie ihm durchaus nicht fremd: Er versteht es immer, das Beste für sich daraus zu machen. Also fälscht er die Unterschrift seines Vaters um der Entschuldigung eigentlich unbegründeten Fernbleibens von der Schule willen - simuliert er den soldatisch begeisterten Epileptiker, um desto sicherer befreit zu sein - nutzt er alle Wege, um seiner "Begabung zur Liebeslust" zu entsprechen (und dabei versteht er sich auf jegliches Alter und alle Gesellschaftsschichten)...

Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

Author	: Thomas Mann
Publisher	: London : Secker and Warburg, 1955 [c1954]
Release Date	: 1955
ISBN 10	: OCLC:1044631553
Pages	: 384 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (463 users)

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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

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Release Date	: 1969
ISBN 10	: OCLC:632272833
Pages	: 378 pages
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The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel

Author	: Michael Sollars
Publisher	: Infobase Publishing
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 9781438108360
Pages	: 957 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (83 users)

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Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel written by Michael Sollars and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Facts On File Companion to the World Novel : 1900 to the Present is a new two-volume reference guide featuring more than 600 entries on the world’s greatest modern novels and novelists, including everything from acknowledg.

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann

Author	: Ritchie Robertson
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2002
ISBN 10	: 0521653703
Pages	: 292 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann written by Ritchie Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life.

The Hotel as Setting in Early Twentieth-century German and Austrian Literature

Author	: Bettina Matthias
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 1571133216
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (16 users)

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Download or read book The Hotel as Setting in Early Twentieth-century German and Austrian Literature written by Bettina Matthias and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study examines the cultural and literary significance of the hotel as a setting of choice in German/Austrian literature between 1890 and 1945."--BOOK JACKET.

Encyclopedia of the World Novel, 1900 to the Present

Author	: Michael David Sollars
Publisher	: Infobase Learning
Release Date	: 2015-04-22
ISBN 10	: 9781438140735
Pages	: 2417 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (47 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the World Novel, 1900 to the Present written by Michael David Sollars and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the print edition:"...a useful and engaging reference to the vast world of the novel in world literature."

A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann

Author	: Herbert Lehnert
Publisher	: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 9781571132192
Pages	: 364 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (321 users)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann written by Herbert Lehnert and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Doktor Faustus attest to his mastery of subtle, distanced irony, while novellas such as Death in Venice reveal him at the height of his mastery of language. In addition to fresh insights about these best-known works of Mann, this volume treats less-often-discussed works such as Joseph and His Brothers, Lotte in Weimar, and Felix Krull, as well as his political writings and essays. Mann himself was a paradox: his role as family-father was both refuge and façade; his love of Germany was matched by his contempt for its having embraced Hitler. While in exile during the Nazi period, he functioned as the prime representative of the "good" Germany in the fight against fascism, and he has often been remembered this way in English-speaking lands. But a new view of Mann is emerging half a century after his death: a view of him as one of the great writers of a modernity understood as extending into our 21st century. This volume provides sixteen essays by American and European specialists. They demonstrate the relevance of his writings for our time, making particular use of the biographical material that is now available.Contributors: Ehrhard Bahr, Manfred Dierks, Werner Frizen, Clayton Koelb, Helmut Koopmann, Wolfgang Lederer, Hannelore Mundt, Peter Pütz, Jens Rieckmann, Hans Joachim Sandberg, Egon Schwarz, and Hans Vaget.Herbert Lehnert is Research Professor, and Eva Wessell is lecturer in Humanities, both at the University of California, Irvine.

Feuchtwanger and Film

Author	: Ian Wallace
Publisher	: Peter Lang
Release Date	: 2009
ISBN 10	: 3039119540
Pages	: 412 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book Feuchtwanger and Film written by Ian Wallace and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a conference held Sept. 2007 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif. and Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings: Thomas Mann

Author	: Thomas Mann
Publisher	: A&C Black
Release Date	: 1999-04-01
ISBN 10	: 0826409717
Pages	: 354 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (17 users)

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Download or read book Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings: Thomas Mann written by Thomas Mann and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Mann (1875-1955) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. This is a collection of his shorter works. "Death in Venice", later filmed by Lucion Visconti starring Dirk Bogarde, was published in 1911. It is a poetic meditation on art and beauty, where the dying composer Aschenbach (modelled on Gustav Mahler) becomes fixated by the young boy Tadzio. The other stories are: "Tonio Kroger"; the collection entitled "Tristan"; "The Blood of the Walsungs"; "Mario the Magician"; and "The Tables of the Law". A number of essays are also included.

A Gorgon's Mask

Author	: Lewis A. Lawson
Publisher	: Rodopi
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN 10	: 9789042017450
Pages	: 435 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (174 users)

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Download or read book A Gorgon's Mask written by Lewis A. Lawson and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis of A Gorgon's mask: The Mother in Thomas Mann's Fiction depends upon three psychoanalytic concepts: Freud's early work on the relationship between the infant and its mother and on the psychology of artistic creation, Annie Reich's analysis of the grotesque-comic sublimation, and Edmund Bergler's analysis of writer's block. Mann's crisis of sexual anxiety in late adolescence is presented as the defining moment for his entire artistic life. In the throes of that crisis he included a sketch of a female as Gorgon in a book that would not escape his mother's notice. But to defend himself from being overcome by the Gorgon-mother's stare he employed the grotesque-comic sublimation, hiding the mother figure behind fictional characters physically attractive but psychologically repellent, all the while couching his fiction in an ironic tone that evoked humor, however lacking in humor the subtext might be. In this manner he could deny to himself that the mother figure always lurked in his work, and by that denial deny that he was a victim of oral regression. For, as Edmund Bergler argues, the creative writer who acknowledges his oral dependency will inevitably succumb to writer's block. Mann's late work reveals that his defense against the Gorgon is crumbling. In Doctor Faustus Mann portrays Adrian Leverkühn as, ultimately, the victim of oral regression; but the fact that Mann was able to compete the novel, despite severe physical illness and psychological distress, demonstrates that he himself was still holding writer's block at bay. In Confessions of Felix Krull: Confidence Man, a narrative that he had abandoned forty years before, Mann was finally forced to acknowledge that he was depleted of creative vitality, but not of his capacity for irony, brilliantly couching the victorious return of the repressed in ambiguity. This study will be of interest to general readers who enjoy Mann's narrative art, to students of Mann's work, especially its psychological and mythological aspects, and to students of the psychology of artistic creativity.

Proust, Mann, Joyce in the Modernist Context, Second Edition

Author	: Gerald Gillespie
Publisher	: CUA Press
Release Date	: 2010-09
ISBN 10	: 9780813217888
Pages	: 393 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (178 users)

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Download or read book Proust, Mann, Joyce in the Modernist Context, Second Edition written by Gerald Gillespie and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original version of Proust, Mann, Joyce in the Modernist Context strove to show how a kindred encyclopedic drive and sacramental sense informed their responses to the epochal trauma, yielding three distinct and monumental visions of the human estate by the 1920s.

Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings

Author	: Thomas Mann
Publisher	: A&C Black
Release Date	: 1999-01-01
ISBN 10	: 0826409709
Pages	: 360 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (9 users)

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Download or read book Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings written by Thomas Mann and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Mann (1875-1955) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. This is a collection of his shorter works. "Death in Venice," later filmed by Lucion Visconti starring Dirk Bogarde, was published in 1911. It is a poetic meditation on art and beauty, where the dying composer Aschenbach (modelled on Gustav Mahler) becomes fixated by the young boy Tadzio. The other stories are: "Tonio Kroger"; the collection entitled "Tristan"; "The Blood of the Walsungs"; "Mario the Magician"; and "The Tables of the Law." A number of essays are also included.>

The Dark Dove

Author	: Eugene Webb
Publisher	: University of Washington Press
Release Date	: 2015-04-28
ISBN 10	: 9780295805252
Pages	: 280 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (52 users)

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Download or read book The Dark Dove written by Eugene Webb and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a subtle exposition of the tension between sacred and secular themes in twentieth-century literature, Eugene Webb analyzes works by Yeats, Mann, Rilke, Stevens, Beckett, Joyce, Nietzsche, Eliot, Auden, and Ibsen. He demonstrates the connection between modern literature and religious tradition, and shows how conceptions of the sacred and its relation to the secular have been transformed in modern literary imagery. Webb considers the writers he discusses to be the true explorers of their generation, who have had to find a new symbolic language in which to understand and express their "idea of the holy." Because the sacred consists of "additude" and "experience" as well as "concept," Webb maintains that it receives its most direct and adequate expression in works of imaginative literature, where imagery can combine the intellectual and emotional elements of the sacred and communicate them to the reader.

European Aestheticism and Spanish American Modernismo

Author	: K. Comfort
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2011-06-13
ISBN 10	: 9780230307247
Pages	: 180 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (72 users)

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Download or read book European Aestheticism and Spanish American Modernismo written by K. Comfort and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locating a shared interest in the philosophy of "art for art's sake" in aestheticism and modernismo , this study examines the changing role of art and artist during the turn-of-the-century period, offering a consideration of the multiple dichotomies of art and life, aesthetics and economics, production and consumption, and center and periphery.

Portrait of a Danish Conman

Author	: Frantz Leander Hansen
Publisher	: Liverpool University Press
Release Date	: 2021-07-01
ISBN 10	: 9781800858312
Pages	: 142 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (583 users)

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Download or read book Portrait of a Danish Conman written by Frantz Leander Hansen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frantz Leander Hansen has written a brilliant book about Otto Stein (Martin Zerlang, University of Copenhagen, reviewing the Danish edition in Scandinavian Studies, University of Illinois Press, Vol. 92, No. 2). Jacob Paludan's Danish classic novel Jørgen Stein (1933) includes the subordinate character Otto Stein, a man about town in the roaring 1920s and a promising barrister. Involvement in small-time crime leads to large-scale confidence trickery which ends in decline, fall and suicide. This literary portrait of an epoch of deceit and fraud as a cultural phenomenon brings to the fore the economics and criminal psychology of the period. Otto Stein is viewed as an ultra-topical figure of our time, someone whose impact on the modern world is important and felt within the spheres of literature, philosophy, jurisprudence, and criminal investigation of contemporary fraudulent behaviour. Inquiry focuses on the path that leads to his suicide. Literary sources of inspiration that contributed to the moulding of the character of Otto Stein are investigated, especially those of Herman Bang, Thomas Mann and Fjodor Dostojevskij. Relevant are Jacob Paludan's other five novels that were published prior to Jørgen Stein, where seeds to Otto's character are sown. Critical to understanding the novel and the character is the scam that deprived Paludan of a financial inheritance. Herewith a superb novelistic example of how a writer merges the historical with the contemporary to reveal a psychology of exploitation dangerously meaningful to us all.

Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories

Author	: Thomas Mann
Publisher	: Liveright Publishing
Release Date	: 2023-02-28
ISBN 10	: 9781631498497
Pages	: 306 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (984 users)

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Download or read book Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories written by Thomas Mann and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lit Hub: Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann’s best stories—including his masterpiece, in its first English translation in nearly a century. A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer—“the starched collar,” as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann’s genius. The headliner of this volume, “Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow” (in its first new translation since 1936)—a subtle masterpiece that reveals the profound emotional significance of everyday life—is Mann’s tender but sharp-eyed portrait of the “Bigs” and “Littles” of the bourgeois Cornelius family as they adjust to straitened circumstances in hyperinflationary Weimar Germany. Here, too, is a free-standing excerpt from Mann’s first novel, Buddenbrooks—a sensation when it was first published. “Death in Venice” (also included in this volume) is Mann’s most famous story, but less well known is that he intended it to be a diptych with another, comic story—included here as “Confessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull.” “Louisey”—a tale of sexual humiliation that gives a first glimpse of Mann’s lifelong ambivalence about the power of art—rounds out this revelatory, transformative collection.