Essays on Thomas Mann / [by] Georg Lukács. Translated from the German by Stanley Mitchell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: New York, NY : Grosset & Dunlap , [1965, c1964]Edition: [1st American ed.]Description: 169 pages ; 21 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 833.912
LOC classification:
  • PT 2625 .A44 Z7452 1965
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Contents:
1. In search of bourgeois man -- 2. The tragedy of modern art -- 3. The Playful style -- Appendix: A. Royal highness -- B. Thomas Mann on the literary heritage -- C. The last great critical realist.
Summary: "This is by far and away the best work of literary criticism I’ve read — and it is, simultaneously, next to Hannah Arendt, the most illuminating insight into the rise of fascism in Germany I’ve encountered—in particular addressing the phenomenon of “armed bohemians,” writers like Pound and Celine who got lost in the vortex of nationalism. I picked it because I was a third through the Magic Mountain and felt I was missing a lot of allegory — if you’re going to dedicate any time to Mann I highly recommend reading this, a distillation and encapsulation of Mann’s work as a whole that is a work of art in its own right. I wish every author had an analogous book I could turn to prior to deciding who was and wasn’t worth the time of digging into." - review on goodreads.comSummary: "[This is] Lukacs’ essay “In Search of Bourgeois Man”, written in 1945 in honour of the seventieth birthday of Thomas Mann. In it, Lukacs traces Mann’s development from Buddenbrooks to the war-time Lotte in Weimar. His perspective is the whole ulterior development of German history. After 1933, Lukacs was haunted by the eclipse of German culture, which had been perhaps the richest and most vital in Europe in the formative years of his youth, and which had collapsed in barbarism. He returned to this theme again and again. “In Search of Bourgeois Man” is a tribute to Mann for his prescience and his resistance to fascism...." - from New Left Review
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Includes index.

1. In search of bourgeois man -- 2. The tragedy of modern art -- 3. The Playful style -- Appendix: A. Royal highness -- B. Thomas Mann on the literary heritage -- C. The last great critical realist.

"This is by far and away the best work of literary criticism I’ve read — and it is, simultaneously, next to Hannah Arendt, the most illuminating insight into the rise of fascism in Germany I’ve encountered—in particular addressing the phenomenon of “armed bohemians,” writers like Pound and Celine who got lost in the vortex of nationalism. I picked it because I was a third through the Magic Mountain and felt I was missing a lot of allegory — if you’re going to dedicate any time to Mann I highly recommend reading this, a distillation and encapsulation of Mann’s work as a whole that is a work of art in its own right. I wish every author had an analogous book I could turn to prior to deciding who was and wasn’t worth the time of digging into." - review on goodreads.com

"[This is] Lukacs’ essay “In Search of Bourgeois Man”, written in 1945 in honour of the seventieth birthday of Thomas Mann. In it, Lukacs traces Mann’s development from Buddenbrooks to the war-time Lotte in Weimar. His perspective is the whole ulterior development of German history. After 1933, Lukacs was haunted by the eclipse of German culture, which had been perhaps the richest and most vital in Europe in the formative years of his youth, and which had collapsed in barbarism. He returned to this theme again and again. “In Search of Bourgeois Man” is a tribute to Mann for his prescience and his resistance to fascism...." - from New Left Review

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