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When Thomas Mann had thus finished the arduous task of getting clear with his ancestry, he started immediately on the next step in his autobiographic way of dealing with problems...
...Mann's chief characteristic stands in his own path. He has carried local colour to its reductio ad absurdam. The significance of the theme is lost in pages and pages of interesting but unnecessary detail. Herr Mann is probably assured of literary immortality. But it is sad that he should survive, not as a great mind, not as a great artist, but as a source-book for future historians...
...name of Thomas Mann is nowhere near as famous in this country as that of Schnitzler or Wassermann; but in Germany, Herr Mann's novels rank as easily the peers of any written by these other men of a more cosmopolitan appeal. The recent appearance of four of his works in English translations has aroused some interest among discerning readers. The following article was written especially for the BOOKSHELF by a family friend and fellow-townsman of Herr Mann's.-Editor's Note...
...that each new work is on its face a distinct confession of the author's artistic creed and his experience in a certain period of his life. That is the case of a German author, who has within the last few years entered America with several translations: Thomas Mann...
...Tonio Kroeger" Knopf, New York, is a short novel, perhaps the best one Thomas Mann has ever written, certainly the one which hit most remarkably right into the center of all problems that vexed the younger generation of Germany at the beginning of this century, the generation which was morbidly inclined to believe that they were all decadents, and devoted to nothing but art for art's sake...