Quotes by Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann published Buddenbrooks at twenty-five, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, and left Germany for good in 1933, broadcasting against the Nazi regime from American exile. His novels — The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus — are long, ironic and preoccupied with the artist's uneasy relationship to ordinary life. His diaries, unsealed twenty years after his death, revealed a private life he had spent a career transposing into fiction.