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OverviewOver 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? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael Maar , David FernbachPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.193kg ISBN: 9781786635754ISBN 10: 1786635755 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 12 February 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsGermany's most gifted literary critic of the younger generation. --London Review of Books Author InformationMichael 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |