The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain

Author: Hermann J. Weigand

Publisher: University of North Carolina S

Published: 2020-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781469658605

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Praised highly by Mann himself, Weigand's book (originally published in 1933) is an essential piece of criticism on Mann's monumental novel. In his study of The Magic Mountain Weigand comments on the novel's genre and organization before dissecting the themes of disease and mysticism, Mann's use of irony, and other aspects of this masterpiece of German literature.

Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes
Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes

Author: Jeffrey Meyers

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2014-02-28

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0810129531

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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.

The Genesis of a Novel
The Genesis of a Novel

Author: Thomas Mann

Publisher: London, Warburg

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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The great German author recounts the events, and the process of reflection, that contributed to the creation of his novel connecting the degeneracy of conscience under Nazism with the Faust myth.

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake

Author: Joseph Campbell

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1577314050

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Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of "Finnegans Wake" - James Joyce's masterwork, which consumed a third of his life - have given up after a few pages, dismissing it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of "Finnegans Wake." The authors break down Joyce's "unintelligible" book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. They outline the book's basic action, and then simplify -- and clarify -- its complex web of images and allusions. "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" is the latest addition to the "Collected Works of Joseph Campbell" series.