In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He returned to Switzerland after the war and became a celebrated literary figure in both East and West Germany. A haunting novella, Death in Venice tells the story of a man who falls. An avowed anti-Nazi, Mann left Germany and lived in the United States during World War II. Read Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann available from Rakuten Kobo. His last unfinished work is The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954), a brilliantly ironic story about a nineteenth-century swindler. Mann is also well known for Death in Venice (1912) and Mario the Magician (1930), both of which portray the tensions and disturbances in the lives of artists. Doctor Faustus (1947), his masterpiece, describes the life of a composer who sells his soul to the devil as a price for musical genius. The novel was based on his … More wife's confinement in such an institution. Mann went on to write The Magic Mountain (1924), in which he studies the isolated world of the tuberculosis sanitarium. Mann was only 26 years old when this novel made him one of Germany's leading writers. Mann's novel, Buddenbrooks (1901), traces the declining fortunes of a merchant family much like his own as it gradually loses interest in business but gains an increasing artistic awareness. From this background, Mann derived one of his dominant themes, the clash of views between the artist and the merchant. His mother was a talented musician and his father a successful merchant. Thomas Mann was born into a well-to-do upper class family in Lubeck, Germany.
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