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Lotte In Weimar

Lotte In Weimar

by ThomasMann (Author)

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    Paperback 2019

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Synopsis

Thomas Mann's self-reflexive meditation on the power of representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination, published in Vintage Classics for the first time Forty years after their youthful association, Lotte Kestner, real life heroine of Goethe's famous novel The Sorrows of Werther, make a pilgrimage to Weimer to see Goethe. To her surprise is greeted on her arrival as a celebrity and taken up into Goethe's set. Evocations of time and place are brilliantly created in this novel, but its genius lies in Mann's masterful portrayal of Goethe and the extraordinary influence exerted on his contemporaries.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 03 Jan 2019
ISBN 10: 1784875058
ISBN 13: 9781784875053

Media Reviews
A masterpiece -- Stefan Zweig
Author Bio
Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Lubeck, of a line of prosperous and influential merchants. Mann was educated under the discipline of North German schoolmasters before working for an insurance office aged nineteen. During this time he secretly wrote his first tale, Fallen, and shortly afterwards left the insurance office to study art and literature at the University in Munich. After a year in Rome he devoted himself exclusively to writing. He was only twenty-five when Buddenbrooks, his first major novel, was published. Before it was banned and burned by Hitler, it had sold over a million copies in Germany alone. His second great novel, The Magic Mountain, was published in 1924 and the first volume of his tetralogy Joseph and his Brothers in 1933. In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. IN 1933 Thomas Mann left Germany for Switzerland. Then, after several previous visits, in 1938 he settled in the United States, where he wrote Doctor Faustus and The Holy Sinner. Among the honours he received in the US was his appointment as a Fellow of the Library of Congress. He revisited his native country in 1949 and returned to Switzerland in 1952, where The Black Swan and Confessions of Felix Krull were written and where he died in 1955.