What was Thomas Mann s life like?

Thomas Mann inherited the humanist tradition of the 19th century in thought, and at the same time was deeply influenced by the philosophical ideas of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and Freudian psychoanalysis, so he not only maintained the critical spirit of realism, but also absorbed the influence of modernism in the early 20th century, forming a unique world view. Both positive and pessimistic. The positive side of the encounter is that he is harshly critical of the old social training and leakage society, and the pessimistic side is his attitude towards the 'new world.

The emergence of the 'world' has always been reserved, which is also the attitude shared by most intellectuals in the West in the 20th century, and Mann is a typical representative of it.

Artistically, Mann's basic tone, especially the long one, is realism, but in his technique, he incorporates many modernist elements, such as stream of consciousness, surrealism, fantasy and irony. Therefore, he is a modern writer, not a modernist writer. His **structure is carefully designed, and the plot and characters are carefully arranged, which is the legacy of 19th-century realism**, but his ** is much richer in the treatment of parts and details than the realistic works of the 19th century.

In addition, he was a master of the German language of the 20th century.

Thomas Mann is a German writer.

Thomas Mann, male, was born in 1875 in Lubeck in northern Germany, and was a well-known German writer and essayist. In 1924, he published the long story "Magic Mountain". In 1929, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

During the First World War, he defended the imperialist entry into the war, but in the 30s he vigorously opposed the threat of fascism and published his novella Mario and the Magician (1930), which vividly described the atmosphere of horror created by fascism in Italy.

Thomas Mann is the most famous German realist writer and humanist of the 20th century, influenced by the philosophical ideas of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. The representative work is the long story "The Buddenbrocks" (1901), which is hailed as "a history of the soul" of the German bourgeoisie, and is regarded as an artistic epitome of the social development of Germany in the second half of the 19th century.

Character evaluation

Thomas Mann dedicated his life to the collection of people fighting for peace and democracy. With more than 60 years of industrious work, he has enriched the treasury of German literature and world literature. He was not only a brilliant and gifted writer, but also a humanitarian and an undaunted warrior of peace who fought tirelessly against all the forces of darkness.

Thomas Mann was always a champion of world peace and German reunification. In the second half of World War II, he strongly condemned Britain and the United States for not quickly avoiding the second battlefield. After the war, he threw himself into the struggle of the people of the world to protect peace with practical actions.

The above content refers to the Encyclopedia of Hundred Calling Branches - Thomas Mann.

"The Buddenbrock Family: The Decline of a Family" "The Fall" "Tristan" "Tonio Kreel" "Death in Venice" "The Magic Mountain" "Mario and the Magician" "The Suffering and Greatness of Richard Wagner" "Joseph and His Brothers" "Greenty in Weimar".

The Chosen One, The Freedom of the Buddenbrock Family, Felix Krul, Part I

Dr. Faustus, "The Buddenbrocks", "The Buddenbrocks", "The King's Sanctity", "The Dream of the Red Chamber", "The Tale of Jacober", "Young Joseph", "Joseph the Breadwinner", "The Chosen One", "The Confessions of Felix Krul".

In 1898, Thomas Mann published the novella Mr. Short Friedman. In 1901 he published his famous novel, The Buddenbrocks, The Decline of a Family. In 1903, he published the first collection of Tristan, including his novella masterpiece "Tonio Klögel".

In 1905 he married Katarina Prinsheim, the daughter of a professor of Jewish descent. Later, he successively published the satirical ** "Under the Ruler of the Palace" (1909), the novella "Death in Venice" (1912), and completed the three-act play "Fiorenza" (1906).