Bluebeard''s Chamber - Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann

Informationen zum Autor Michael Maar has taught at Stanford University and is a member of two German academies. A leading literary critic, he now lives in Berlin. Klappentext Over the last twenty years, much critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted his homosexuality. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann's creative work, but also is the supposed reason for the theme of guilt and redemption that grew ever stronger in Mann's fiction, and for his panic in 1933 that his early diaries would fall into the hands of the Nazis. Michael Maar mounts a devastating forensic challenge to this consensus: Mann was remarkably open about his sexual orientation, which he saw as no reason for guilt. But sexuality in Mann's work is inextricably bound up with an eruption of violence. Maar pursues this trail through Mann's writings and traces its origins back to Mann's second visit to Italy, during which the Devil appeared to him in Palestrina. Something happened to the twenty-one-year-old Thomas Mann in Naples that marked him for life with a burdensome sense of guilt...but what exactly was it? Zusammenfassung Germany's most gifted literary critic on the critical discussion of Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann.

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Michael Maar has taught at Stanford University and is a member of two German academies. A leading literary critic, he now lives in Berlin.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Maar, Maar Michael
• Assisted by: David Fernbach (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2019
• EAN: 9781786635754
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-575-4
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Deutsch, Biography: literary, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans), Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers