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| | Thomas Mann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist and essayist, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironyironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology/ of the artist and intellectual and an underlying eroticism informed by Mann's own struggles with his homosexuality. |
 | | Mann's diaries, unsealed in 1975, speak movingly of his own struggles with his sexuality, which found reflection in his works, especially through the obsession of the elderly Aschenbach for the young Polish boy, Tadzio, in his long short story, or novella, ''Death in Venice'' (originally ''Der Tod in Venedig'', 1912). |
 | | Heinrich was an overt Communist, whereas Thomas was criticised for not condemning the Nazi regime enough... |
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