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Bluebeard's Chamber : Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann by Michael Maar (2019, Trade Paperback)

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Over the last twenty years, much critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted his homosexuality. But sexuality in Mann’s work is inextricably bound up with an eruption of violence.

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PublisherVerso Books

ISBN-101786635755

ISBN-139781786635754

eBay Product ID (ePID)242798893

Product Key Features

Book TitleBluebeard's Chamber : Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

TopicEuropean / German, Modern / 20th Century, General, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Subjects & Themes / General

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorMichael Maar

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight5.6 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal833.912

SynopsisOver the last twenty years, much critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted his homosexuality. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann's creative work, but also is the supposed reason for the theme of guilt and redemption that grew ever stronger in Mann's fiction, and for his panic in 1933 that his early diaries would fall into the hands of the Nazis. Michael Maar mounts a devastating forensic challenge to this consensus: Mann was remarkably open about his sexual orientation, which he saw as no reason for guilt. But sexuality in Mann's work is inextricably bound up with an eruption of violence. Maar pursues this trail through Mann's writings and traces its origins back to Mann's second visit to Italy, during which the Devil appeared to him in Palestrina. Something happened to the twenty-one-year-old Thomas Mann in Naples that marked him for life with a burdensome sense of guilt...but what exactly was it?