Books : Thomas Mann: Tonio Kroger (German Texts) (German Texts)
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by: Thomas Mann
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781853993459
ISBN: 185399345X
Label: Duckworth Publishers
Manufacturer: Duckworth Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: July 15, 2007
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Sales Rank: 1554336
Studio: Duckworth Publishers
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A title in the Bristol Classical Press German Texts series, in German with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. Thomas Mann (1875-1955), was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929, and 'Tonio Kroger' occupies a central position in his spiritual and artistic development. A study of youth, it draws together many strands of his life and work: the duality of his parentage; his abhorrence of discipline; and the influence of Schopenhauer and Wagner on his early phase of writing.
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Rating:  - Land About to Go to Waste
In this short novella, more so than in his other works, Thomas Mann parades his artistic pretensions with naïveté and inadvertent honesty. Oh, how the poor artist has to suffer, oh, how he must suppress his feelings in order to arrive at an artistic end-product, oh, how he has to put up with the conventions and inconveniences of surrounding bourgeois life. As thoroughly bourgeois as the man next door, whom he nevertheless sneers at, Mann contrives a tale both silly and flawed. In between the lines, ... Read More
Rating:  - The lonesome life of an artist
In this short story, Mann very nicely depicts the problems of the lonely artist, who will always remain an outsider because he is different. In the short story it becomes obvious that it is very difficult for the protagonist Tonio Kroeger to accept this. Tonio Kroeger, who is a writer, falls in love with two people, Hans and Ingeborg, who have blue eyes and blond hair, because they possess the qualities he is longing for. He wants to be as care free as Ingeborg and Hans Hansen, who are not plaged ... Read More
Rating: - The lonesome life of an artist
In this short story, Mann very nicely depicts the problems of the lonely artist, who will always remain an outsider because he is different. In the short story it becomes obvious that it is very difficult for the protagonist Tonio Kroeger to accept this. Tonio Kroeger, who is a writer, falls in love with two people, Hans and Ingeborg, who have blue eyes and blond hair, because they possess the qualities he is longing for. He wants to be as care free as Ingeborg and Hans Hansen, who are not plaged ... Read More
Rating: - UUUUGGGGHHHH!!! THIS IS NOT ART
I Found this story to be the tale of a self-indulgent, self absorbed, and truly arrogant man. Tonio Kroger is an unhappy soul who hides behind the claim of being an artist. How can one put down and demean the people he wishes to be like? Tonio is the victim of poor self esteem that could be easily escapable if he would only see that he is the cause of all his "suffering". As you all can see, I was not particularly fond of this selection but I give two stars anyway due to the fact that I only had ... Read More
Rating: - Mann dishes up a tale that can relate to the "outsider".
A story of the artist, of the mad in the world longing nothing more than to walk among the happy and commonplace. Of love and the inability to express it but from afar and embracing the anguish and tumult of it all for that is life! Mann knows the struggle, the mark of Cain as Hesse put it, and offers a guide for those with little dust in their eyes and comfort that you alone my friend are not mad and that the madness is not bad but nothing merely there to embrace and see. I highly recommend this ... Read More
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