Daniel Defoe, that indefatigable hack, published Journal of the Plague Year in 1722. Writing about the bubonic plague sweeping through London in 1665, when Defoe himself was no more than five years ...

Thomas Mann, a Nobel laureate and literary giant, fled Germany in the 1930s, later using his voice to condemn the Nazi regime through essays and BBC broadcasts. His early success with "Buddenbrooks" ...

As part of this freshly launched program, once a year an internationally renowned personality in literary studies will be invited to ETH Zurich. The lecture series is aimed at both the interested ...

In November 1924 a masterwork of twentieth century literature was published: Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain tells the story of Hans Castorp, a young German from Hamburg who visits his cousin in a ...

Scholarly work on Thomas Mann has in recent decades grown to such an extent that it is hard to be kept track of even by specialists. Founded by Eckhard Heftrich and Hans Wysling and currently edited ...

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“The task of a writer,” Thomas Mann (1875-1955) said, “consists in being able to make something out of an idea.” He also said, “A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for ...

Scholarly work on Thomas Mann has in recent decades grown to such an extent that it is hard to be kept track of even by specialists. Founded by Eckhard Heftrich and Hans Wysling and currently edited ...