By Thomas Mann
El presente volumen reúne una selección de los ensayos de Thomas Mann, sin duda una de las figuras centrales de l. a. literatura del siglo XX. Poco conocida en España, l. a. ingente obra ensayística de este autor –los volúmenes publicados después de su muerte suman más de dos mil páginas– constituye un análisis penetrante e imaginativo de l. a. cultura europea.
Alrededor de este tema critical se agrupan otros como los angeles relación del artista con los angeles sociedad, los angeles complejidad de los angeles realidad y del tiempo o las seducciones de l. a. espiritualidad, el eros y los angeles muerte.
Los textos que aquí presentamos suponen una eficaz aproximación al ideario estético de Mann en campos como l. a. música, el teatro y los angeles literatura. Es en este último apartado donde se encuentran algunos de los ensayos más perceptivos y profundos de su autor, en torno a grandes figuras de los angeles literatura common: desde un “Viaje por mar con Don Quijote” –genial comentario de l. a. obra de Cervantes escrito en el barco que le llevaba a Estados Unidos en 1934 huyendo de los nazis– hasta el conmovedor ensayo sobre Chéjov, pasando por Goethe, Zola o l. a. Anna Karénina de Tolstói.
Thomas Mann nació en Lübeck en 1875, segundo hijo de un comerciante acaudalado. Su madre pertenecía a una familia de plantadores de raíces luso-brasileñas, algo que influiría decisivamente en l. a. personalidad de Thomas, cuyo espíritu se encontró siempre escindido entre l. a. austera ética protestante y las inclinaciones sensuales y estéticas.
los angeles carrera literaria de Thomas Mann se inició a muy temprana edad, con l. a. publicación en 1893 de sus primeros relatos. Su primera novela, Los Buddenbrook (1901), le lanzaría a los angeles fama. Reconocido a partir de entonces como un gran escritor y estilista de los angeles lengua alemana, Mann cultivó el relato y l. a. novela, con obras tan relevantes como La muerte en Venecia (1913) o La montaña mágica (1924), así como el ensayo sobre temas culturales y políticos.
En 1929 recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura. los angeles llegada al poder de los nazis en 1933 le obligó a exiliarse, primero en Suiza y luego en Estados Unidos. Entre 1934 y 1944 publicó l. a. tetralogía basada en l. a. historia bíblica de José, José y sus hermanos, a l. a. que siguió los angeles enormous Doktor Faustus (1947). En 1954 se instaló en Zúrich, donde moriría en 1955.
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In 1907, when he was most desperate for money, he sold dle last of his library, including a treasured letter from Robert Louis Stevenson. He suffered not only from his customary asthma and alcoholism but from bouts of cold and hunger and was on the verge of a complete nervous breakdown. At one point, he wrote to Julie dlat he was embarrassed that his sister and husband were paying all of Hesper's expenses. "3 Even though Julie had limited funds, in late autumn of 1905 they moved to a larger apartment at 5 Rue de Regard.
In February Richard published his novel The Worshipper of the Image. The story concerns a poet who lives in a lovely country house with his wife and children. He acquires a plaster mold of a suicide victim that bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife. The poet falls in love with the image and proceeds to neglect his wife, who eventually commits suicide. A rather morbid fantasy, the book detailed the author's continued mourning for his first wife. Julie was livid with the publication. A few weeks latel; Richard left Chiddingfold.
4 By the time the two men had met, WiJde was already a skilled connoisseur of likely-looking young men. His charm and mastery of language, as well as his rich, syrupy voice with its Irish intonations, could almost always bring a smile. As one of his biographers put it, he had become "consumed with his passion for moving swiftly from one to another of the boys he met .... Wilde was hypnotized not by any individual but by his conception of pleasure, of supermanship.... "5 Although most of Wilde's friends in London were homosexual, there is no clear evidence of a physical relationship between him and Richard.