Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle
Stanley Corngold, "Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle "
English | ISBN: 1501386492 | 2022 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1501386492 | 2022 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi Germany, and feted in his new country as “the greatest living man of letters.” This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley Corngold tells the little known story of Mann's early years in America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted émigrés in Princeton, which came to be called the Kahler Circle, with Mann at its center. The Circle included immensely creative, mostly German-speaking exiles from Nazism, foremost Mann, Erich Kahler, Hermann Broch, and Albert Einstein, all of whom, during the Circle's nascent years in Princeton, were “stupendously” productive.
In clear, engaging prose, Corngold explores the traces the Circle left behind during Mann's stay in Princeton, treating literary works and political statements, anecdotes, contemporary history, and the Circle's afterlife.
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