This author was dubbed "Ironic" in the title of Erich Heller's book about him.
This author was dubbed "Ironic" in the title of Erich Heller's book about him. His Brazilian mother Júlia inspired Consuelo, the mother of a character who is mistaken for an escaped con man and nearly arrested on a visit to his hometown. In that novella by this author, the protagonist discusses art with the painter Lizaveta Ivanovna and attends a ball where he sees people who resemble his childhood friends Hans Hansen and Ingeborg Holm. One of his characters continually encounters a (*) red-haired man whose face is caked with white makeup and repeatedly notices the odor of disinfectant used to ward off the spread of cholera. An erotic obsession with a Polish boy named Tadzio fills the last days of Gustav von Aschenbach in a 1912 novella by this author. For 10 points, name this German author of Tonio Kröger and Death in Venice.
This author was dubbed "Ironic" in the title of Erich Heller's book about him.
Thomas Mann [or Paul Thomas Mann]