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Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Essays on German fiction writers who established their literary reputations between the mid 1950s and the mid 1970s. The biographies and discussions of their works reflect the political, social and cultural developments in Germany, and the clash between the restrictions of socialist realism and the urge for artistic freedom.
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Essays on West German, East German and Swiss-German authors who experienced Nazi rule and World War II as adults. Entries examine these writers coming to terms with the experience of fascism, and how they were often the conscience of a society that was inclined to forget it recent past. The lives and works of these writers provide an insight not only into German literature but also into several decades of German history.
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Essays on German fiction writers whose literary activity took place between the world wars. Covers prose writers as well as poets or dramatists who also wrote significant prose fiction. Includes significant and notable writers as well as lesser talented writers and neglected writers who have been discovered in recent years.
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Essays on German fiction writers whose works are representative of the pre-World War I Germany and Austria through the decade after the end of World War II. Focuses on writers of prose fiction as well as poets and dramatists who also wrote significant prose fiction. Frequently includes previously unavailable information on these writers.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides both his artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from this father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin...
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