Little Herr Friedemann and Other Stories is a selection of work by Thomas Mann Taken from Stories of a Lifetime. 'Little Herr Friedemann' is characteristic of Mann.s deep imward affinity to music and his concern for the artist's isolation and equivocal position in a harsh world of reality, and this theme is also seen in 'The Infant Prodigy'. The isolation motif is maintained in 'The Fight Between Jappe and Do Escobar' but developed to pursue individuals at extremes of their condition. Mann himself considered every piece of work a complete realization of one's own nature, the 'stones on that harsh road which we must walk to learn of ourselves'. These stories realize Mann's nature and create an autobiography in the guise of fiction.
Author
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. See also: Serbian: Tomas Man Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, 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. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.
