Robert Philen's Blog: Mann and Wagner, Art and Culture.
Buy Three Essays by Mann, Thomas (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Mann, Thomas: The Sorrows and Grandeur of Richard Wagner. From an anthology of Thomas Mann's writings on Richard Wagner entitled Pro and Contra Wagner. Translated from the German by Allen Blunden. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London, 1985. Originally published in German in 1933. Nattiez, Jean-Jacques.
Also recommended is the excellent critical analysis of Erich Heller, The Ironic German: A Study of Thomas Mann (1958). Erich Kahler, The Orbit of Thomas Mann (1969), is a collection of five excellent essays by a close friend of Mann. A critical essay on Mann's major novels is J. P. Stern, Thomas Mann (1967).
Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus is a work of exile, written in the US (1943 -1947), a bold and sometimes terrifying retelling of the Faust legend through the life of a composer, Adrian Leverkuhn.
Freud, Goethe, and Wagner: By Thomas Mann. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. 211 pp. Lectures delivered at the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1937. Psychoanal Q., 7:143-148. Welcome to PEP Web! Viewing the full text of this document requires a subscription to PEP Web. If you are coming in from a university from a registered IP address or secure referral page you should not.
Sixteen essays, a rich course in European literature, for he writes not only of the specific personalities he has chosen, but abundantly of their contemporaries, their place in history, in the arts. Brilliant scholarship, profound philosophical as well as historical content, these essays are, for my choice, Thomas Mann's security in the hall of fame. I felt that when I read his slighter volume.
Thomas Mann: On myself and other Princeton lectures: an annotated edition based on Mann's lecture typescripts. Responsibility edited by James N. Bade. Imprint New York: P. Lang, c1996. Physical description 166 p.; 21 cm. Series Historisch-kritische Arbeiten zur deutschen Literatur; 18. Bd. Online. Available online At the library. Green Library. Find it Stacks. Items in Stacks; Call.