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Thomas Mann


Born
in Lübeck, Germany
June 06, 1875

Died
August 12, 1955

Genre
Classics, Fiction, Philosophy

Influences
Theodor Fontane, Goethe, Ivan Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Schopenh ...more


Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

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Serbian: Tomas Man

Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important ...more

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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
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“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
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October 2014 New School Poll

 
  25 votes, 20.0%

1925, The Trial by Franz Kafka, pages 276
 
  21 votes, 16.8%

 
  12 votes, 9.6%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, pages 305
 
  9 votes, 7.2%

1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581 pages
 
  8 votes, 6.4%

 
  8 votes, 6.4%

 
  7 votes, 5.6%

1966, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, pages 311
 
  7 votes, 5.6%

 
  5 votes, 4.0%

1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, pages 220
 
  4 votes, 3.2%

 
  4 votes, 3.2%

1974, Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, pages 336
 
  4 votes, 3.2%

1952, The Birds by Daphne du Maurier, pages 75
 
  4 votes, 3.2%

 
  2 votes, 1.6%

 
  2 votes, 1.6%

 
  2 votes, 1.6%

1980. Aztec by Gary Jennings, pages 754
 
  1 vote, 0.8%

1903, The Ambassadors by Henry James, pages 528
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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