Thomas Mann's WarPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0013
Tobias Boes
{"title":"The Isolated World Citizen","authors":"Tobias Boes","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers Thomas Mann's role in postwar Germany. For a number of reasons, the idea of Mann leading postwar Germany on its thorny path back to democracy was utterly illusory. However, Mann's future was uncertain now that it was no longer necessary to represent the autonomy of German culture against the totalitarian demands of the Nazis. This issue would plague Mann for the remainder of his life and lead to the decline of his public reputation in America during the late 1940s and early 1950s. As had been the case in the 1930s, however, Mann's search for a new representative role did not take place in a vacuum. The American cultural landscape was changing as well, and realigning itself in ways that made the once-topical author come to seem superannuated.","PeriodicalId":220488,"journal":{"name":"Thomas Mann's War","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130861794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Mann's WarPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0011
Tobias Boes
{"title":"The Loyal American Subject","authors":"Tobias Boes","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter shows how Thomas Mann was reintroduced into postwar Germany—where his works had been previously banned—through American distribution of his literature. Many Germans were glad to be given new reading matter after years of censorship, paper shortages, and aerial bombardments that destroyed a large number of civilian presses. For these Germans, both the U.S. Army and the Bermann-Fischer Verlag, which continued to publish from abroad until 1949, became valuable avenues through which they could reimagine their own broken literary heritage. Thomas Mann, that most German of modern authors, was now indisputably also a part of American (and through it of global) literary culture. His commercial success and his literary reputation were partly, if not predominantly, determined by factors that had nothing to do with the responses of German readers at all.","PeriodicalId":220488,"journal":{"name":"Thomas Mann's War","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116606429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Mann's WarPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0002
Tobias Boes
{"title":"The Teacher of Germany","authors":"Tobias Boes","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reflects on Thomas Mann's representative aspirations as the leading voice of the “other Germany.” It shows how his copious and often agonized reflections concerning his representative status reveal that he was intensely attuned to the social flux around him. And his later career in America demonstrates that he ultimately owed his fame to his ability not to resist, but rather to respond to, unprecedented historical conditions. Whatever else it might have been, Nazism was a powerful manifestation of modernity. In successfully positing himself as its antipode, Mann was not expressing blind obeisance to tradition but rather engaging in a dialectical dance that transformed the social role of the author into something that it had never been before.","PeriodicalId":220488,"journal":{"name":"Thomas Mann's War","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115610781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Mann's WarPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501745003-015
Tobias Boes
{"title":"Interlude V: Doctor Faustus (1948)","authors":"Tobias Boes","doi":"10.7591/9781501745003-015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745003-015","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn, as Told by a Friend is not only the most ambitious work of literature that Thomas Mann wrote during his American exile but also the one most explicitly concerned with the fate of the artist under conditions of totalitarian domination. Begun in May 1943 and completed in January 1947 (the first German-language edition was published later that same year; the first American edition, in 1948), the composition of ...","PeriodicalId":220488,"journal":{"name":"Thomas Mann's War","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125275132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Mann's WarPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0014
Tobias Boes
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Tobias Boes","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"This concluding chapter considers the continuing importance of Thomas Mann in the world republic of letters. It explains how the parameters that conditioned Mann's rise to the status of literary celebrity and antifascist icon in the United States of the 1930s and 1940s foreshadowed developments in the world republic of letters. These developments, moreover, did not fully come to fruition until after the Second World War. Furthermore, they continue to affect global literary production in the twenty-first century. In many respects, Thomas Mann was a forerunner for experiences that have become commonplace for writers in our own day, especially those that hail from the periphery of the global literary community.","PeriodicalId":220488,"journal":{"name":"Thomas Mann's War","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127681919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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