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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 |
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