Thomas Mann. A Life
Thomas Mann’s lifelong struggle with life, love and literature
Icon of 20th-century literature, Noble prize-winner, celebrated genius – and about as unhappy as it’s possible to be. He loves and yet he cannot love, blocked as he is by the conventions of the age. What a source of inspiration for some of the greatest works of literature – and what a thoroughly miserable life.
His early global success with ›Buddenbrooks‹ open up door after door – all the way to the White House. No German voice denounces Hitler as vocally as his, no other writer garners as many accolades as he does. His wife Katia and his six children huddle around him like a cocoon. And yet, he is only ever one wrong-footed step away from tumbling into the abyss.
- A wealth of new revelations from unpublished journals and correspondence never seen before between Mann and his best friend from childhood
- Includes a sublime piece of writing by Susan Sontag on her encounter with Thomas Mann, published here for the first time ever
- Brilliantly narrated by the author of the bestseller 'The Manns', which has been translated into numerous languages
Tilmann Lahme, born in 1974, is a literary historian and author. Lahme studied German, History and Philosophy. Since 2014, he holds the professorship for media history and critical journalism at Leuphana University in Lüneburg. Numerous publications about the Mann family, including a highly acclaimed biography of Golo Mann and the bestseller "The Manns. History of a family."
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