Thomas Mann

Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, social critic, philanthropist and essayist, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and intellectual and an underlying eroticism informed by Mann's own struggles with his sexuality. He is noted for his analysis and critique of the European and German soul in beginning of the 20th century using modernized German and Biblical myths as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer.

Influences

The Bible, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Theodor Fontane, Sigmund Freud, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carl Jung, Martin Luther, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich von Schlegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

Related Topics:
The Bible - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Theodor Fontane - Sigmund Freud - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Carl Jung - Martin Luther - Friedrich Nietzsche - Friedrich von Schlegel - Arthur Schopenhauer - E.T.A. Hoffmann - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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