Disorder and Early Love: The Eroticism of Thomas Mann

The Thomas Mann literature-by him or about him, and translated into all civilized languages-is immense; no writer has ever written more or received more accolades. His six children called him "the magician," and no doubt had their reasons. There is a magical "now-you-see-it, now-you-don't" in practically all of his writings, a magic that pertains to his eroticism: a homo-eroticism that explicitly rules out homosexuality by virtue of an internal dictum: "You may observe, but you may not touch."
That proviso, which goes back to his childhood, eventually enabled him to write over and over again about his dominant passion, a passion for handsome young men, for the ephebe "beautiful like man and woman, yet neither man nor woman, but something miraculous in between," to write about it without causing offense.

Product details

• Authors: Wolfgang Lederer
• Publisher: QED Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2011
• EAN: 9781879384804
• ISBN: 978-1-879384-80-4
• No. of pages: 1357
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 233 mm x 69 mm
• Weight: 1630 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies