Cursed Legacy : The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann / Frederic Spotts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spotts, Frederic, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mann, Klaus, 1906-1949.

Mann, Klaus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann's comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the author of Mephisto, the literary enfant terrible of the Weimar era produced seven novels, a dozen plays, four biographies, and three autobiographies-among them the first works in Germany to tackle gay issues-amidst a prodigious artistic output. He was among the first to take up his pen against the Nazis, as a reward for which he was blacklisted and denounced as a dangerous half-Jew, his books burnt in public squares around Germany, and his citizenship revoked. Having served with the U.S. military in Italy, he was nevertheless undone by anti-Communist fanatics in Cold War-era America and Germany, dying in France (though not, as all other books contend, by his own hand) at age forty-two. Powerful, revealing, and compulsively readable, this first English-language biography of Klaus Mann charts the effects of reactionary politics on art and literature and tells the moving story of a supreme talent destroyed by personal circumstance and the seismic events of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. First Writings 1906-24

2. First Scandals 1924-28

3. First Drugs 1929-32

4. Fleeing Hitler 1933

5. Homosexualities 1934-35

6. Lecturing to Americans 1936-37

7. Stalin's Agent 1938-39

8. Farewell to Germany 1940-41

9. A New Identity 1942

10. 'Misplaced' 1943

11. German Problem Children 1944-45

12. The Shadow Falls 1946-47

13. Todessehnsucht 1948

14. Death in Cannes 1949

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

0-300-22097-9

OCLC:

1129162462