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	Thomas Mann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mann was born in Lübeck, Germany, second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (a senator and grain merchant) and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns (who was born in Brazil and came to Germany when she was 7 years old).
		Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, principally in recognition of his popular achievement with the epic Buddenbrooks (1901), which relates the decline of a merchant family in Lübeck (based on Mann's own family) over the course of three generations.
		Mann was a humanist who valued the cumulative achievements of Western culture and believed in the necessity of upholding civilization against the dangers of decay and barbarism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Mann (1296 words)

	MSN Encarta - Thomas Mann
		Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German novelist, essayist, and short-story writer, a Nobel laureate and one of the most prominent and influential European writers of the 20th century.
		Mann saw himself and was seen by others as the leading spokesman for German values and the chief representative of German culture from 1900 to his death in 1955.
		Mann was born in 1875 in Lübeck, an important trading port on the North Sea, into a prominent and wealthy family of merchants.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571740/Mann_Thomas.html (893 words)

	Thomas Mann [1875-1955], , Legends, Thomas Mann [1875-1955] profile, A leading German writer of the early 20th century, ...
		Thomas Mann, the foremost German novelist of the 20th century, was born of a patrician family in the north German city of Lubeck on June 6, 1875.
		Mann's marriage (1905) to Katja Pringsheim, daughter of a wealthy Jewish family of bankers and scholars, fulfilled his ambition to become father of a family (they were to have six children) and also secured his financial independence.
		Mann's lifelong theme, as he observed in the essay "On Myself" (1940), is the breakdown of civilization - the invasion of the carefully cultivated and disciplined defenses of Western culture by the elemental power of Dionysian urges.
	www.4to40.com /legends/index.asp?article=legends_thomasmann (943 words)

	Mann, Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		To coordinate this dual focus Mann often wrote in a symbolic vein, although in general he was less experimental than many of his contemporaries.
		Mann left (1933) Hitler’s Germany for Switzerland in self-imposed exile, was deprived (1936) of his citizenship by the Nazis, and after 1938 lived in the United States until he returned to Switzerland in 1953.
		Mann’s son Klaus Mann, 1906–49, was a novelist, essayist, and playwright.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Mann-Tho.html (764 words)

	Thomas Mann and the Proponents of Inner Emigration
		Thomas Mann and the Proponents of Inner Emigration
		Mann was aware of at least some of these requests, and seems never to have wavered in his resolve to remain in the United States; he notes in his diary “daß ich gently turned down the Berlin invitation.” [5] But there was one request to which he had to respond publicly.
		Mann never denies, and in fact states emphatically, that he is still very much tied to the German tradition, and that his status as “amerikanischer Weltbürger” does not exclude his deep commitment and devotion to the German spirit.
	www.nthuleen.com /papers/948Mann.html (8610 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Thomas Mann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Paul Thomas Mann was born on 6 June 1875 in Lübeck, an old Hanseatic city, as the second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann, owner of an established grain business and one of the city’s most respected citizens, and Julia Mann, née da Silva-Bruhns, a beautiful, artistically inclined woman of German and South American origins.
		Thomas Mann moved to Munich with his mother, where he worked in an insurance agency for a year and then decided to make a living as a writer.
		Mann himself had implied in a letter to his friend Otto Grautoff in 1898 that writing about, and fictionally camouflaging, his homoerotic desires was a central force of his creativity.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2919 (649 words)

	Thomas Mann and Death in Venice
		One of the greatest German-speaking novelists of the twentieth century, Thomas Mann, was born June 6th, 1875, in the Northern German town of Lübeck.
		In 1936 Thomas Mann was officially deprived of his German citizenship and in the same year he was stripped by the Bonn academic senate of his Honorary Doctorate.
		For his part, Mann took an active part in the anti- Nazi struggle, denouncing the 'terrible complicity of the German universities' in breeding 'those ideas which are ruining Germany morally, culturally, and financially'.
	www.auschwitz.dk /Venice.htm (739 words)

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		Mann, the younger brother of the novelist and playwright Heinrich Mann, was born into an old merchant family in L[[cedilla]]beck on June 6, 1875.
		Mann's fiction is characterized by accurate reproduction of the details of both modern and ancient life, by profound and subtle intellectual analysis of ideas and characters, and by a detached, somewhat ironic, point of view combined with a deep sense of the tragic.
		Mann took refuge first in Switzerland and then in the United States (1938), becoming a citizen in 1944.
	www.uib.no /ped/thomasmann.html (471 words)

	Mann, Thomas on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		MANN, THOMAS [Mann, Thomas], 1875-1955, German novelist and essayist, the outstanding German novelist of the 20th cent., b.
		Mann's son Klaus Mann, 1906-49, was a novelist, essayist, and playwright.
		Kathrin Mann is fingerprinted as Thomas Wegener looks over her shoulder as the German tourists arrive in Miami, Florida, on their way to Key West on September 30, 2004.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Mann-T1ho.asp (1455 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts
		Indeed Thomas Mann and Goethe share an Olympian aloofness, a tendency to conceal at the very moment of revelation, a coldness towards others which co-existed with a warm love of self, a mystery at the heart which ensures for them enduring critical and biographical attention.
		He can say with certainty that such-and-such a character "is" Thomas Mann, or identify, in some fictional character, Mann's older brother (and rivalrous enemy) Heinrich, or his wife Katia, or one of his six children, or any of the young men for whom he felt homoerotic impulses.
		Mann was not a nice man, but he was an extraordinary one and he was a great writer.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/12/08/bokur08.xml&sSheet=/arts/2002/12/08/bomain.html (915 words)

	Beinecke Library Guide -- German Collection
		In 1957 Yale purchased the major portion of Helen Lowe-Porter's Thomas Mann papers, including typescripts of her translations of essays and lectures by Mann and her English renditions of all of five of his novels, often accompanied by German typescripts, which were prepared under Mann's supervision and have occasional manuscript corrections in his "Roman" hand.
		Among the longer Mann correspondences held at Yale are the letters with Joseph Angell between 1935 and 1951, the letters with Hermann J. Weigand between 1927 and 1952, and the correspondence with Helen Lowe-Porter, 1924-54.
		Mann met Meyer on his 1937 lecture tour and she became one of his closest friends and most ardent supporters, offering him political advice and commentary on the American scene.
	www.library.yale.edu /beinecke/blgycgl.htm (3379 words)

	Thomas Mann Museum
		Thomas Mann (1875-1955) came to Nida on holiday and so liked the area that he built a summer house there to which his family came every year in the early 1930s.
		Thomas Mann is probably best known for the novel Dr Faustus (1947) and the novella Death in Venice (1912).
		Thomas Mann, winner of the Nobel Prize, had a house built in the Lithuanian style and vacationed there in the summers of 1930-1932.
	muziejai.mch.mii.lt /Neringa/mano_muziejus.en.htm (667 words)

	little blue light - Thomas Mann
		Mann was born June 6, 1875, the second of five children in an upper middle family of well established merchants in the commercial seaport city of Lubeck.
		In 1903, Mann met Katia Pringsheim, daughter of a Jewish university mathematician, and, despite his homosexual inclinations, married her in 1905.
		At the beginning of the war, Thomas was a conservative supporter of monarchy and lauded the moral superiority of Germany, a position at odds with his brother Heinrich who sided with France and the forces of democracy.
	www.littlebluelight.com /lblphp/intro.php?ikey=17 (1417 words)

	Amazon.com: Death in Venice : And Seven Other Stories (Vintage International): Books: Thomas Mann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thomas Mann may be an acquired taste in literature; he himself admitted that he had great difficulty knowing when to stop.
		Thomas Mann is notorious for his lengthy sentences and his never-ending novels, so I picked this as a gentle introduction to his works.
		Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929, and these stories, if not Nobel prize quality, at the very least show Mann to be an engaging and entertaining writer.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679722068?v=glance (1951 words)

	Random House \| Books \| Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
		Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil.
		Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility.
		Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780749386573 (284 words)

	Truman Library - Thomas C. Mann Oral History Interview
		MANN: I think Paul's substantially right, but I would modify that only by saying that communications are so much more rapid now than they have ever been before -- the radio and TV and newspapers and everything -- so these things happen at a faster clip.
		MANN: The only thing I could remember on which I really had any disagreement at all with what was represented to me to be the President's policy was over a loan to Pemex for 500 million dollars.
		MANN: Well, I want to tell you that I was in charge of the bureau (I was Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs at the time), and Dean Rusk had an office down on the ground floor, reading papers.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/mannt.htm (14413 words)

	Thomas Mann and Walker Percy
		Thomas Mann is not entirely forgotten today in the United States, but he has lost the pre-eminence that he held among world novelists during the Twenties, Thirties, and Forties, the period when Walker Percy was a young man wandering library stacks searching for a literary father.
		Mann even throws out the possibility that Hans’s dormant tuberculosis becomes active in response to his repressed yearning for the love that was denied him in his early development, an ancient belief that even today has its supporters.
		Thomas Mann certainly knew those song-cycles, for he was both highly responsive to music in general and a victim of Sehnsucht from childhood, having listened devoutly as his mother sang the Lieder.
	www.ibiblio.org /wpercy/lawson2.html (5664 words)

	Election 2004: Analysis (washingtonpost.com)
		Thomas Mann: I believe it reflects the fact that virtually of all the competititve races were fought on Republican territory, that is, in Red states.
		Thomas Mann: My view is that Kerry was a plausible nominee and eventually proved himself an acceptable alternative to the President, one who in the debates clearly passed the threshold for entering the White House.
		Thomas Mann: Rove appears to have succeeded in increasing the turnout of evangelicals in battleground states.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A20277-2004Nov3.html (2178 words)

	Thomas Mann: Tutte le informazioni su Thomas Mann su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thomas Mann: Tutte le informazioni su Thomas Mann su Encyclopedia.it
		Thomas Mann, nato a Lubecca il 6 giugno 1875, morto a Zurigo (Kirchberg) il 12 agosto 1955, era uno scrittore tedesco.
		Nel 1894 abbandonò il liceo per antipatia verso la scuola e andò a stare a Monaco con la madre e i fratelli.
	www.encyclopedia.it /t/th/thomas_mann.html (385 words)

	Thomas Mann biography
		Biography of Thomas Mann, recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Lubeck, Germany.
		Thomas Mann, recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Lubeck, Germany.
		Thomas Mann died near Zurich, Switzerland in 1955.
	mn.essortment.com /thomasmannbiog_rwck.htm (301 words)

	Thomas Mann - his life and works
		Thomas Mann: a life This exploration of Thomas Mann's life describes his relationship with his brother Heinrich, his homosexuality, his career as a prolific essayist, and the vast achievement of his novels.
		Particular attention is paid to Mann's opposition to Nazism, and his role in the rise and fall of Hitlerism.
		Mann's son Klaus, a writer and theatre critic, publishes Mephisto, a novel dealing with the relationship between art and politics, the dangers of compromising with evil, and which uses the Faust theme - all of which prefigure Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus.
	www.mantex.co.uk /ou/a319/mann-02.htm (464 words)

	Book Reviews: "Doctor Faustus," by Thomas Mann & "The Castle," by Franz Kafka
		Mann read Kafka's world to be like his own--informed by a spiritual dread that is treated in ironic language.
		Mann frames the novel as a posthumous biography of Adrian Leverkuhn written by his close friend Serenus Zeitblom, an old-fashioned humanist and teacher of classics.
		What Mann admired in Goethe was the spontaneous creativity that simultaneously expressed his individuality and reflected and helped shape the self-understanding of his age.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR23.5/Dowden.html (1570 words)

	Mann, Thomas: The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He is contemptuous of the foolish flirtations and empty talk in which most of the sanatorium inhabitants indulge, and warns Hans repeatedly of the dangers inherent in cutting off all ties to real life and responsibility.
		The intervening events led Mann to a major examination of human nature, European history and politics and to ponder the great questions surrounding life and death.
		In the informative afterword written retrospectively, Mann states that "what [Hans] came to understand is that one must go through the deep experience of sickness and death to arrive at a higher sanity and health.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/mann313-des-.html (529 words)

	Michael Mann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Mann (politician), Federal Marijuana Party candidate in Canada.
		Michael Thomas Mann (1919-1977), musician and professor of German literature, son of Thomas Mann.
		Michael Mann (sociologist) (born 1942), professor of sociology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Mann (104 words)

	Planning a new type of literary edition: the Thomas Mann Project
		Thomas Mann is one of the most significant German authors of the early 20th century.
		If we apply this to the works of Thomas Mann, "Schiller" and "Goethe" would not be found in the novel A Weary Hour, and it be established that the novel Buddenbrooks is set in Lubeck, because none of these terms occur in the text.
		A Thomas Mann novel, for example, is divided into sections and paragraphs in the same way as the general commentary of the editors.
	www.gca.org /papers/xmleurope2000/papers/s09-02.html (4512 words)

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