Thomas Mann: The Uses of Tradition (Clarendon Paperbacks)

About this book

Based in part on close reading of manuscripts and sources at the Zurich Thomas Mann Archive Reeds study has long established itself as the standard work in English on Manns fiction and thought. In this new edition Reed adds a chapter on the new documentation that has appeared since the first edition. He details the main currents in Mann scholarship over the last two decades suggesting how we should now see the writer the man and the political figure and above all the complex relationship between the three.