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From Publishers Weekly
More than any other modernist writer, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) has remained something of a mystery. Biographers have concluded from his writings that he was an anti-Semite, a closet homosexual, a proto-fascist and an authoritarian father.
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In exhaustive detail, renowned Mann scholar Kurzke offers what 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 and the ways that his art informs his life.
Kurzke reads the essay "Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man," for example, to show how Mann's resistance to WWI nevertheless convinced him of the political power of art. Kurzke's Mann emerges as a celibate homoerotic writer who sublimated erotic desires and political questions into his art.
Above all, Kurzke's biography proclaims, Mann ambitiously and tirelessly worked at his art