Wysling observes that, like the protagonist of 'Doctor Faustus,' Mann early in his career espoused 'an aestheticism that looked down on all bourgeois conflicts of power and interest, asserting the superiority of the intellect by subjecting life to a radically ironic perspective.' After the Mann brothers made starkly divergent public statements about World War I, they broke off their correspondence in 1914 for almost four years. Meta finishes brutal layoff round, surpassing 20,000 layoffs since November.Memorial for San Francisco legend Heklina shuts down Castro Street.‘Brought to a place of tears’: Yosemite gateway town empties after road into park fails.Oprah Winfrey could replace Dianne Feinstein in Senate, report says.Oakland restaurant Hi Felicia abruptly announces immediate closure after break-in.pot farms infected with ‘severe’ pathogen Horoscope for Thursday, 5/25/23 by Christopher Renstrom.Woods, who has already retranslated Mann's 'Buddenbrooks' and 'The Magic Mountain.' Although the audience for Thomas Mann's demanding work must be dwindling too, Knopf has just published a new English translation of Mann's 1947 novel 'Doctor Faustus' by John E. Today, Heinrich is little read except by enthusiasts of German literature.

Until Thomas got the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929, his politically engaged brother Heinrich was the more famous and prolific of the two. To the young Mann, politics 'was nearly synonymous with the betrayal of the intellect,' writes Hans Wysling, compiler of the well-annotated first English edition of Thomas' correspondence with his older brother, fellow novelist Heinrich. Among fiction writers, Thomas Mann suffered it more publicly and painfully than most. How involved should an artist be in the political conflicts of his time? This dilemma has spanned the modern era and weighed upon people in every discipline. LETTERS OF HEINRICH AND THOMAS MANN, 1900-1949 Translated by

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