Thomas Mann's Felix Krull, written between 1910-13 and continued (though never completed) in 1951-54, uses contemporary accounts of these figures as a starting-

Specially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life.

Argues on the evidence of nine major German novels that literature and business have in common a reliance on language, understood in a creative, performative, a

A classic, controversial book exploring German culture and identity by the author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, now back in print. When the Great W

Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels su