Bluebeard's chamber : guilt and confession in Thomas Mann / Michael Maar ; translated by David Fernbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maar, Michael.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Blaubartzimmer. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.

Mann, Thomas.

Novelists, German--20th century.

Novelists, German.

Guilt in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 150 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, [2003]

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

Over the last twenty years, much critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted his homosexuality. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann's creative work, but also is the supposed reason for the theme of guilt and redemption that grew ever stronger in Mann's fiction, and for his panic in 1933 that his early diaries would fall into the hands of the Nazis. Michael Maar mounts a devastating forensic challenge to this consensus: Mann was remarkably open about his sexual orientation, which he saw as no reason for guilt. But sexuality in Mann's work is inextricably bound up with an eruption of violence. Maar pursues this trail through Mann's writings and traces its origins back to Mann's second visit to Italy, during which the Devil appeared to him in Palestrina. Something happened to the twenty-one-year-old Thomas Mann in Naples that marked him for life with a burdensome sense of guilt . . . but what exactly was it?

Notes:

"This edition first published by Verso 2003."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1859845290 :

OCLC:

52783178