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The aesthetic imperative.(Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art)(Book Review)
From: American Scholar
Date: 20020922
Author:Kirsch, Adam
THOMAS MANN: LIFE AS A WORK OF ART By Hermann Kurzke; translated from the German by Leslie Willson. Princeton University Press. $35.
"I was forced to look within myself for everything. If I wanted true source material, feeling, or reflection for my poems, I had to delve into my own bosom.... Therefore all my published works are but fragments of one great confession." Substitute "novels" for "poems," and the famous lines by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe could easily have come from the pen of Thomas Mann. Mann, who deliberately patterned his career after Goethe's, was in nothing ...
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