Bluebeard's Chamber: Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann

Author:   Michael Maar ,  David Fernbach
Publisher:   Verso Books
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9781786635754


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   12 February 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Bluebeard's Chamber: Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann


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Over the last twenty years, critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted the role of his homosexuality for his creative work. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann's creative work, but also is the supposed reason for the theme of guilt and redemption that grew ever stronger in Mann's fiction. Michael Maar mounts a devastating forensic challenge to this consensus: Mann was remarkably open about his sexual orientation, which he saw as no reason for guilt. But sexuality in Mann's work is inextricably bound up with an eruption of violence. Maar pursues this trail through Mann's writings and traces its origins back to Mann's second visit to Italy, during which the Devil appeared to him in Palestrina. Something happened to the twenty-one-year-old Thomas Mann in Naples that marked him for life with a burdensome sense of guilt...but what exactly was it?

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Author:   Michael Maar ,  David Fernbach
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.193kg
ISBN:  

9781786635754


ISBN 10:   1786635755
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   12 February 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Germany's most gifted literary critic of the younger generation. --London Review of Books


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Michael Maar is one of Germany’s leading literary critics. Formerly a visiting professor at Stanford University, he is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and the German Academy for Language and Literature.

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