TY - BOOK ID - 78718285 TI - Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters PY - 2019 SN - 1501745018 150174500X 9781501745003 9781501745010 9781501744990 1501744992 1501761706 PB - Cornell University Press DB - UniCat KW - Authors, German KW - Authors, Exiled KW - Politics and literature KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - World War, 1939-1945, in literature KW - Exiled authors KW - Exiles KW - Refugees KW - Expatriate authors KW - Political and social views. KW - Political activity KW - History KW - Literature and the war. KW - Public opinion. KW - Foreign public opinion KW - Mann, Thomas, KW - Mann, Paul Thomas KW - Mann, Thomas KW - マン・トオマス KW - マン, トーマス KW - Political activity. KW - World War II, world literature, exile, propaganda, Doctor Faustus. KW - Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures KW - Literary Criticism / European / German KW - History / Military / World War II UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78718285 AB - In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted.Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having fled his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books. Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, Mann undertook successful lecture tours of the country and penned widely-read articles that alerted US audiences and readers to the dangers of complacency in the face of Nazism's existential threat. Spanning four decades, from the eve of World War I, when Mann was first translated into English, to 1952, the year in which he left an America increasingly disfigured by McCarthyism, Boes establishes Mann as a significant figure in the wartime global republic of letters. ER -