Weimar in Princeton - Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle

Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi Germany, and feted in his new country as "the greatest living man of letters." This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley Corngold tells the little known story of Mann''s early years in America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted emigres in Princeton, which came to be called the Kahler Circle, with Mann at its center. The Circle included immensely creative, mostly German-speaking exiles from Nazism, foremost Mann, Erich Kahler, Hermann Broch, and Albert Einstein, all of whom, during the Circle''s nascent years in Princeton, were "stupendously" productive.In clear, engaging prose, Corngold explores the traces the Circle left behind during Mann''s stay in Princeton, treating literary works and political statements, anecdotes, contemporary history, and the Circle''s afterlife. portrays a fascinating scene of cultural production, at a critical juncture in the 20th century, and the experiences of an extraordinary group of writers and thinkers who gathered together to mourn a lost culture and to reckon with the new world in which they had arrived.>

Product details

• Authors: Stanley Corngold
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2022
• EAN: 9781501386497
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-8649-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: New Directions in German Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Second World War fiction, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Comparative Literature, Migration, immigration & emigration, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Migration, immigration and emigration, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers