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THOMAS MANN'S ARTIST-HEROES By Jeffrey Meyers - Hardcover **SIGNED BY AUTHOR**
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- Subject
- Art & Photography
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Special Attributes
- Signed By Author, Dust Jacket, 1st Edition
- ISBN
- 9780810129535
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10
0810129531
ISBN-13
9780810129535
eBay Product ID (ePID)
166539227
Product Key Features
Book Title
Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
European / German, Subjects & Themes / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
17.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-032445
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
" Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes is a cornucopia of passionate exposition, insight, and dissection. Meyers has waited a lifetime to give full form to his fascination with Thomas Mann--and we are the grateful beneficiaries." --Nigel Hamilton, author of American Caesars and The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942, "This brilliant and intensely rich book fills one, from the beginning, with the desire to know more--all there is--about Mann and the stories and novels that brought him to preeminence as Germany's greatest modern writer and important moral force . . . This is a wonderful book written with verve. Thomas Mann, his person, themes, obsessions, and art have been of lifelong interest to Jeffrey Meyers, who brings to them the background and breadth that supreme literary art and the tremendous decades from 1900 through the 1940s deserve." --James Salter, author of A Sport and a Pastime and Light Years
Dewey Decimal
833.912
Synopsis
Jeffrey Meyers has written acclaimed biographies of many of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, but none has affected him as deeply as Thomas Mann. From his first youthful encounter with Death in Venice, Meyers has cultivated a lifetime obsession with Mann's elegant style, penetrating irony, and insight into the life of the artist. Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes follows Mann's own obsession with the artistic life through his characters: from the fiction of Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice and the music of Adrian Leverkühn in Doctor Faustus, to Tonio Kröger's life as a writer, to the artistically minded patient Hans Castorp in The Magic Mountain, and finally to Mann's time in America and later memoirs by his family. Mann probes deeper than perhaps any other author into questions of how an artist is formed, why he must defy conventional society, and how suffering and disease affect his work. Admirers of Thomas Mann and of Jeffrey Meyers's biographies will find in this remarkable book the best introduction to one of the greatest writers of the modern age., Jeffrey Meyers has written acclaimed biographies of many of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, but none has affected him as deeply as Thomas Mann. From his first youthful encounter with Death in Venice , Meyers has cultivated a lifetime obsession with Mann's elegant style, penetrating irony, and insight into the life of the artist. Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes follows Mann's own obsession with the artistic life through his characters: from the fiction of Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice and the music of Adrian Leverkühn in Doctor Faustus , to Tonio Kröger's life as a writer, to the artistically minded patient Hans Castorp in The Magic Mountain , and finally to Mann's time in America and later memoirs by his family. Mann probes deeper than perhaps any other author into questions of how an artist is formed, why he must defy conventional society, and how suffering and disease affect his work. Admirers of Thomas Mann and of Jeffrey Meyers's biographies will find in this remarkable book the best introduction to one of the greatest writers of the modern age., Jeffrey Meyers has written acclaimed biographies of many of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, but none has affected him as deeply as Thomas Mann. From his first youthful encounter with Death in Venice, Meyers has cultivated a lifetime obsession with Mann's elegant style, penetrating irony, and insight into the life of the artist. Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes follows Mann's own obsession with the artistic life through his characters: from the fiction of Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice and the music of Adrian Leverk hn in Doctor Faustus, to Tonio Kr ger's life as a writer, to the artistically minded patient Hans Castorp in The Magic Mountain, and finally to Mann's time in America and later memoirs by his family. Mann probes deeper than perhaps any other author into questions of how an artist is formed, why he must defy conventional society, and how suffering and disease affect his work. Admirers of Thomas Mann and of Jeffrey Meyers's biographies will find in this remarkable book the best introduction to one of the greatest writers of the modern age., Jeffrey Meyers has written acclaimed biographies of many of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, but none has affected him as deeply as Thomas Mann. From his first youthful encounter with Death in Venice, Meyers has cultivated a lifetime obsession with Mann's elegant style, penetrating irony, and insight into the life of the artist.Admirers of Thomas Mann and of Jeffrey Meyers's biographies will find in this remarkable book the best introduction to one of the greatest writers of the modern age.
LC Classification Number
PT2625.A44Z4696 2014
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- e***v (558)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseTerrific Seller here! The item was as described & for a good price. It was shipped quickly & packaged well. I would definitely do business again. Thank you for letting me say so!
- n***r (4)- Feedback left by buyer.Past yearVerified purchaseTook a few days to get it shipped out, but it was received as advertised. Packaged very well and as described. I’d buy from this seller again. Thank you seller!Total Drama Island - Complete Season (DVD, 2009, 4-Disc Set) (#286158370764)
- _***8 (3)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchasePackaging was top-notch, and the book came in exactly as described! Shipping was also very fast. Value was definitely worth the price, as these books are becoming more scarce to come by. I plan on coming back to this shop for sure! Thank you (:Dream Analysis Ella Freeman Sharpe, Hardcover + DJ (#285838531182)