Studia Litterarum (Sep 2017)

On the Symbolism of Thomas Mann

  • Vasily M. Tolmatchoff

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2017-2-3-118-137
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 3
pp. 118 – 137

Abstract

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The essay discusses Thomas Mann’s symbolism and its parameters as well as Mann’s interpretation of the crisis of European spiritual values. Тhe author examines the role of Nietzsche in Mann’s heritage as well as interconnections between Mann and Wilde, Mann and Gide. Buddenbrooks is interpreted as a novel about the end of the German Renaissance; duality of the modern artist is shown on the example of “Tonio Kröger” while the paradoxes of his eroticism are analyzed on the example of “Der Tod in Venedig.”

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