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Thomas Mann


Born
in Lübeck, Germany
June 06, 1875

Died
August 12, 1955

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Serbian: Tomas Man

Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important
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Death in Venice

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Buddenbrooks: The Decline o...

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Quotes by Thomas Mann  (?)
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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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  22 votes, 22.7%

 
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  14 votes, 14.4%

 
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Lichte jaren van Elizabeth Jane Howard - 544 pagina's
 
  6 votes, 6.2%

New York van Edward Rutherfurd - 800 pagina's
 
  4 votes, 4.1%

De Buddenbrooks van Thomas Mann - 616 pagina's
 
  4 votes, 4.1%

Grondvuur van Mirjam Gielen - 224 pagina's
 
  4 votes, 4.1%

Malena van Almudena Grandes - 511 pagina's
 
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