Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle by Corngold, Stanley

Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501386497)

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Format: Hardcover
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Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle by Corngold, Stanley

Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle

$95.00
Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle by Corngold, Stanley

Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi Germany, and feted in his new country as "the greatest living man of letters." This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley Corngold tells the little known story of Mann's early years in America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted 駑igr駸 in Princeton, which came to be called the Kahler Circle, with Mann at its center. The Circle included immensely creative, mostly German-speaking exiles from Nazism, foremost Mann, Erich Kahler, Hermann Broch, and Albert Einstein, all of whom, during the Circle's nascent years in Princeton, were "stupendously" productive.

In clear, engaging prose, Corngold explores the traces the Circle left behind during Mann's stay in Princeton, treating literary works and political statements, anecdotes, contemporary history, and the Circle's afterlife. Weimar in Princeton portrays a fascinating scene of cultural production, at a critical juncture in the 20th century, and the experiences of an extraordinary group of writers and thinkers who gathered together to mourn a lost culture and to reckon with the new world in which they had arrived.

Author: Stanley Corngold
ISBN-10: 1501386492
ISBN-13: 9781501386497
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2022
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
By Stanley Corngold
By Stanley Corngold
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Stanley Corngold is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of nine books, including, most recently, Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine and Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic. He has edited 11 books, including the Norton Critical Edition of Kafka's Selected Stories (ed. and trans., with preface, notes and critical apparatus) and the Modern Library edition of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (ed. and trans., with introduction, notes, and critical materials).

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