Thomas Mann
1875–1955 · German · 20th Century
Known for: Wrote The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice — the Nobel laureate obsessed with disease, desire, and the decline of civilization
Mann won the Nobel Prize in 1929 for Buddenbrooks (the decline of a merchant family) and wrote The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus, and Death in Venice — works exploring the tension between bourgeois order and Dionysian chaos. He fled Nazi Germany and became an anti-fascist voice in exile.
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