Im Werk Thomas Manns stehen die Erzählungen gleichberechtigt neben den großen Romanen. Ihre formale Klarheit und sprachliche Präzision zeichnen sie ebenso aus wie ihr Humor und ihr psychologischer Scharfblick. Bereits der junge Thomas Mann hat die kurze Prosa als seine Form entdeckt und früh zur Meisterschaft entwickelt. Über Jahrzehnte hinweg hat der Autor immer wieder Erzählungen verfasst, die zu den wichtigsten dieses Genres gehören, darunter ›Der kleine Herr Friedemann‹ (1897), ›Tonio Kröger‹ (1903), ›Tristan‹ (1903), ›Der Tod in Venedig‹ (1912), ›Herr und Hund‹ (1919), ›Mario und der Zauberer‹ (1930) oder ›Die vertauschen Köpfe‹ (1940). In der Textfassung der Großen kommentierten Frankfurter Ausgabe (GKFA), mit Daten zu Leben und Werk.
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.
