Thomas Mann, from the beginning of his career, took himself very seriously. Although his writing is difficult, he appealed to Germans familiar with their nation’s classics and was by 1929, when ...

Thomas Mann, a Nobel laureate and literary giant, fled Germany in the 1930s, later using his voice to condemn the Nazi regime through essays and BBC broadcasts. His early success with "Buddenbrooks" ...

Daniel Defoe, that indefatigable hack, published Journal of the Plague Year in 1722. Writing about the bubonic plague sweeping through London in 1665, when Defoe himself was no more than five years ...

Scholarly work on Thomas Mann has in recent decades grown to such an extent that it is hard to be kept track of even by specialists. Founded by Eckhard Heftrich and Hans Wysling and currently edited ...

As part of this freshly launched program, once a year an internationally renowned personality in literary studies will be invited to ETH Zurich. The lecture series is aimed at both the interested ...

In November 1924 a masterwork of twentieth century literature was published: Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain tells the story of Hans Castorp, a young German from Hamburg who visits his cousin in a ...

Scholarly work on Thomas Mann has in recent decades grown to such an extent that it is hard to be kept track of even by specialists. Founded by Eckhard Heftrich and Hans Wysling and currently edited ...

“Out of this worldwide festival of death, this ugly rutting fever that inflames the rainy evening sky all around—will love someday rise up out of this, too?” The bourgeois, anti-fascist Thomas Mann is ...

Even after years of negotiations, the project for a cultural center at the former Boa Vista Plantation in Paraty, where Julia Mann was born, remains uncertain. Experts have noted that Julia had a ...

When Arnold Schoenberg settled in Brentwood, California, in the mid-nineteen-thirties, he found himself living across the street from Shirley Temple. Ronald Schoenberg, one of the composer’s sons, ...