Paul Thomas Mann was born in Free City of Lubeck, German Empire on 6 June
1875. He
was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas
are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe
, Nietzsche
and Schopenhauer
. Mann's work influenced many future authors, including Heinrich Böll
, Joseph Heller
, Yukio Mishima
, and Orhan Pamuk
.
He died in Zurich, Switzerland, on 12 August 1955, at the age of 80.
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Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
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Death in Venice (1912)
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The Magic Mountain (1924)
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Doctor Faustus (1947)
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