Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art. A Biography Book

	Translator's Preface	xiii
I.	Childhood and School Days
	Chronicle 1875-1894	2
	Horoscope	3
	Sunday Bells	4
	In the Shadow of St. Mary's Church	5
	Thunder and Lightning	7
	Othellos	9
	Lead Soldiers and Playing Gods	10
	Your Sapiency and Lubeck's Most Beautiful Woman	12
	Bed and Sleep, Elegiacal	19
	Stretch, Curtail, Corrupt	20
	Flunking	24
	The Autodidact	25
	Fellow Students	27
II.	Early Love and First Writings
	Chronicle 1889-1893	32
	First Love: Armin Martens	33
	Williram Timpe	37
	The Sunken Treasure	42
	Lost Poems and Dramas	43
	Spring Storm and Other Immature Things	45
	Girls in Lubeck	47
III.	Before Fame
	Chronicle 1894-1901	52
	Deciding for His Mother	54
	Freedom	55
	Talented and Chosen	58
	A Metaphysical Magic Potion	60
	Klarchen	61
	Quiet in All the Cellars!	64
	Knowledge Is the Deepest Torment in the World	68
	Elbow Room: Little Herr Friedemann	69
	Primal Odds and Ends	71
	The Opera Glass	76
	General Dr. von Staat	78
	Italy	83
	"Amen!" Means "Enough!"	84
	A Scavenger	87
	But the Little Hunchback, Too	89
IV.	Thomas and Heinrich
	Chronicle 1875-1914	96
	Papa's Death and Goodwill	98
	In Inimicos	98
	Lorenzo and the Prior	102
	Correspondence	104
	Plebeians and Chandalas, Renaissance Men and the Ideal of Feminine Artistic Beauty	108
	The Hunt for Love	109
	Heinrich and Katia	112
V.	The Path to Marriage
	Chronicle 1900-1905	116
	A Stroke of Luck	117
	Tonio Kroger	118
	I Love You! My God ... I Love You!	120
	The Flirtation Squabble	128
	Paul's Death	132
	Chastity	133
	"Du"--Informal Address	134
	Literature and Life	135
	Mary Smith	137
	Money Matches	139
	The Courtship of Katia Pringsheim	141
	Prince and Algebra	149
	Engagement and Wedding	150
	Katia, Fictionally	153
VI.	Ambitious Plans
	Chronicle 1905-1914	160
	Fame!	161
	Fiorenza	162
	Heroism: Frederick the Great	164
	The Unsuccessful Bilse Piece and Other Activities	165
	Workday and Alcohol	168
	Why Did I Get Married?	169
	Maya	170
	The Train Wreck	171
	The State, Our Father, and an Enlightened Monarch	172
	Censor Anti-Censor	174
	How Jappe and Do Escobar Had a Fight	175
	Death in Venice	177
	A Death in Polling	179
	Sense of Family, a Snapshot	182
	Plans of Doing Away with Oneself	185
VII.	Jews
	The Blood of the Walsungs and Doctor Sammet	188
	Anti-Semitism?	191
	The Jewish Girl	193
	Thomas Mann--Wasn't He a Jew?	194
	The Harden Trial	196
	Alfred Kerr	198
	Theodor Lessing	205
	A Wretched Man	210
VIII.	War
	Chronicle 1914-1918	216
	Soldier and Military Man Aschenbach	217
	1914 in Letters	220
	Military Service	223
	Thomas Mann and the Grand Coalition	224
	The Ordeal	226
	Zola	227
	Saying Everything	229
	Eroticism and Irony	230
	Fratricidal War	231
	Opinions	234
	Attempt at a Reconciliation	235
	Mysticism	239
	Church	241
	Faith	243
IX.	Attempts at Orientation
	Chronicle 1918-1921	248
	Heinrich	249
	Politics: Theory and Practice	250
	The Bavarian Soviet Republic	254
	Revolution in Russia	257
	Conservative Revolution	263
	On the Jewish Question	264
	Domestics	266
	A Comfort: Dogs	270
X.	Family, No Fun Either
	Chronicle 1918-1933	274
	Poor Little Katia	276
	Loneliness	281
	Father of Six	282
	Erika	287
	Klaus	289
	Golo	291
	Monika	293
	Elisabeth	294
	Michael	295
XI.	In the Magic Mountain
	Chronicle 1912-1924	298
	We Phantoms along the Path	299
	The Pyramid	300
	The Drift Net	301
	Boneless	304
	The Most Sensuous Thing I Ever Did	305
	Smoking	307
	Kings Know No Irony	308
	Things Most Questionable	310
	From Life to His Work	316
XII.	Republican Politics
	Chronicle 1922-1933	320
	The Reconciliation with Heinrich and the Shift to the Republic	322
	The Vanquisher of the Romantic	324
	Trillion-Dollar Eggs	326
	The Fight against Fascism	328
	Seven Reasons for the Astonishing Politicization of Thomas Mann	331
	Johst, Hubscher, and Pilot Rogues	333
	Storm Troopers in Tuxedos	336
	Ernst Junger	338
XIII.	Homoeroticism of Midlife
	A Hesitant Coming Out	342
	Boys 1918-1921	343
	Weber, Wyneken, Wickersdorf	347
	Monstrous Indecencies	350
	Impotence	351
	Eros As a Statesman	352
	On Marriage	353
	Against Paragraph 175	354
	Klaus Heuser and Amphitryon	354
	A Candid Confessor	359
	A Don Quixote of Love	361
XIV.	Ostracized
	Chronicle 1933-1936	364
	Hitler and Friedemann	366
	The Suitcase	368
	Let the World Know Me	369
	House, Heins, Heydrich	371
	Where Did the Hate Come From?	375
	Towering Alone	376
	The Great Disappointment	378
	A Political Act	381
	The Liberation	383
XV.	Joseph and His Brothers
	Chronicle 1924-1943	390
	Anti-Bilse?	392
	Icing on the Cake	395
	Thamar and Agnes Meyer	397
	Father and Mother, Katia and Paul	400
	Churchill and the Bible	405
	God, the Father, and the Angelic Creature	407
	On the Magician's Chastity	412
	Militant Christianity	414
XVI.	Hate for Hitler
	Chronicle 1936-1945	416
	I Am an American	419
	Morally a Good Time	419
	Thank You, Mr. Hitler!	422
	This Man Is My Brother	423
	The Jews Will Endure	425
	Shameless but Fascinating	427
	Self-Love	430
	It Is Always a Life Story	431
	Oh--Really?	436
	War and Peace	439
	Bermann and Landshoff	440
	In the White House	442
	Golo, Klaus, and Erika	443
	Heinrich	449
	Frighteningly Leftist Goings-on	452
	Brecht	454
	Prize Recipient and Shadow President	455
XVII.	Doctor Faustus
	Chronicle 1943-1949	460
	Thomas Faust?	462
	Retouchings	465
	The Herz Woman at Table, Unfortunately	466
	Schwabing and Polling, Palestrina and Pacific Palisades	470
	The Adviser	473
	The Real Thing	477
	Rudi and Paul	479
	Not Serenus, but Adrian	481
	The Devil	483
	The Emotionalism of Impurity	485
	Klopfgeissel	487
	Superbia et Gratia	490
XVIII.	Pain and Glory
	Chronicle 1945-1955	494
	No, They Are Not a Great People	496
	Come As a Good Doctor!	498
	Why I Will Not Return to Germany	499
	Kastner	501
	Hausmann	502
	Vikko, Pree, and Godfather Bertram	503
	The Goethe Trip and Its Consequences	509
	Russian Mink	513
	The Fireman	514
	Why I Will Not Remain in America	516
	Einstein and the Bomb	519
	The Little Planet in a Corner of the Universe	521
	Showered with the Gold of Praise	528
XIX.	To the Last Breath
	Instead of a Chronicle	532
	Soit	533
	Franzl	534
	The Eroticism of Michelangelo	544
	Mann As Madame	546
	Sin and Grace	548
XX.	Final Things
	Liebestod and Skeleton	554
	Time Runs Out	558
	Consecration and Transfiguration	560
	Eternal Life	562
	Real Dying	564
	Whispers of the Dead	566
	Figure Credits	571
	Index of Names	573