Thomas mann - wikipedia
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Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
For other people named Thomas Mann, see Thomas Mann (disambiguation).
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Mann in 1929 | |
| Born | (1875-06-06)6 June 1875 Free City of Lübeck, German Empire |
| Died | 12 August 1955(1955-08-12) (aged 80) Zürich, Switzerland |
| Resting place | Kilchberg, Switzerland |
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| Period | 20th century |
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| Literary movement | Modernism |
| Years active | 1896–1954 |
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| Notable works | Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Joseph and His Brothers, Doctor Faustus |
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| Spouse | Katia Pringsheim |
| Children | Erika, Klaus, Golo, Monika, Elisabeth, Michael |
| Relatives | Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (father) Júlia da Silva Bruhns (mother) Heinrich Mann (brother) |
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Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art. A Biography
"With brilliantly erudite perspicacity, Kurzke opens before us the chasm running through Mann's life; Mann felt that his artist's alienation, his creative decadence were separated from the mainstream's wholesome middle-class robustness. . . . [Kurzke's] centerpiece is Mann's dark side, and for more than 500 pages, the book tracks the labyrinthine ways in which that darkness nourished genius."—Frederic Morton, Los Angeles Times
"A monument of good sense and sensitivity. . . . A humane account of a human being, vulnerable, obsessive, not overly likeable, and driven by an extraordinary talent, a mixture for which it is possible to feel sympathy and empathy when we are given both man and writer in this depth."—T. J. Reed, Times Literary Supplement
"[This book] may easily become the definitive biography of the great writer. Drawing deeply on letters, journals, diaries and essays, he engages in close readings of all of Mann's writings to demonstrate the ways the writer's life so intimately informs his art
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Travelling to London on Saturday to see Doctor Atomic, I read an interesting piece in the Guardian review by Salman Rushdie. The general theme was inspired by the fact that a film director once told him that all movies made from novels were “rubbish”.
I was reminded of that piece today when I had a quick look at cosmic variance and found a post about the forthcoming film Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code. The post is mainly about the fact that Angels and Demons is based in the world of particle physics so some educational materials have been generated to cash in on it, so to speak. Nothing wrong with that as an idea. Every little helps.
The problem for me is that the film is directed by Ron Howard and stars Tom Hanks. This is the same combination that took Brown’s enjoyably preposterous page-turner and made it into one of the worst pieces of cobbled-together garbage that I’ve ever seen in a cinema. The novel isn’t so bad for what it is, a formulaic but fairly well crafted thriller. The film is excruciating. The bo
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