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A Thousand Laurie Lees: The Centenary Celebration of a Man and a Valley

Adam Horovitz

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This is not a book about Laurie Lee, still less a biography. It is about the spirit of the man and...

Tonio Kroger

Thomas Mann

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A title in the Bristol Classical Press German Texts series, in German with English notes, vocabulary...

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Tonio Kroger

Thomas Mann | 1998 | Fiction & Poetry

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"I know that the novella "Tonio Kroger" is not Thomas Mann’s greatest work. There is some part of me that feels that I should be putting up “Buddenbrooks” or “The Magic Mountain” here. And there’s a strong case for “Death in Venice,” too. But this is the book of his that felled me completely when I read it as a German student in my teens. All Mann’s enduring themes are here: the struggle between duty and love, between the febrile pleasure and teutonic responsibility; and the lethal vulnerability of the lover, set against the wanton cruel power of the beloved. It’s an anguished worldview, which is what spoke so directly to the adolescent reader I was, but no one reads Thomas Mann for woo-woo life-enhancing sentimentality."

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