The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521653107
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary; Essays; Literary Collections; Biography / Autobiography; German; Literature: Classics; Mann, Thomas,; European - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Mann, Thomas,--1875-1955--Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc; Criticism and interpretation; 1875-1955; Handbooks, manuals, etc
First sentence: It is paradoxical that a body of work which begins by being so narrowly preoccupied with problems of the writer's self, and which to the end centres on characters expressing his intimate and unchanged concerns, should also contain so much history.