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Thomas Mann


Born
in Lübeck, Germany
June 06, 1875

Died
August 12, 1955

Genre

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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
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Quotes by Thomas Mann  (?)
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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

“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.”
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Polls

September 2017 New School Classic Poll

 
  44 votes, 14.3%

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, 1992, 559 pgs
 
  33 votes, 10.7%

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 1985, 324 pgs
 
  30 votes, 9.7%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 1969, 448 pgs
 
  27 votes, 8.8%

Dubliners by James Joyce, 1914, 207 pgs
 
  26 votes, 8.4%

Sophie's Choice by William Styron, 1979, 562 pgs
 
  19 votes, 6.2%

 
  18 votes, 5.8%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1906, 335 pgs
 
  16 votes, 5.2%

 
  15 votes, 4.9%

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, 1927, 256 pgs
 
  15 votes, 4.9%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 1990, 555 pgs
 
  13 votes, 4.2%

 
  11 votes, 3.6%

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 1913, 468 pgs
 
  11 votes, 3.6%

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, 1934, 308 pgs
 
  10 votes, 3.2%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 1923, 127 pgs
 
  10 votes, 3.2%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 225 pgs
 
  9 votes, 2.9%

The Street by Ann Petry, 1946, 435 pgs
 
  1 vote, 0.3%

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1953, 180 pgs
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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