The Turning Point (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
398
Utgivningsdatum
1995-11-01
Upplaga
illustrated Edition
Förlag
Markus Wiener Publishing Inc
Medarbetare
USA), Shelley L. Frisch (Rutgers University, (introd.)
Illustrationer
illustrations
Dimensioner
216 x 140 x 23 mm
Vikt
522 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Paperback
ISBN
9780910129145

The Turning Point

Autobiography of Klaus Mann

Häftad,  Engelska, 1995-11-01
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In this second installment of his autobiography (following Kind dieser Zeit), Klaus Mann describes his childhood in the family of Thomas Mann and his circle, his adolescence in the Weimar Republic, and his experiences as a young homosexual and early opponent of Nazism. He also describes how, after the Reichstag elections of September 1930, friends and family began to discuss the looming prospect of emigration and exile. When Stefan Zweig published an article claiming that democracy was ineffective, Klaus replied: I want to have nothing, nothing at all to do with this perverse kind of `radicalism. After hearing one of his working-class lovers in a storm troopers uniform say, They are going to be the bosses and thats all there is to it, Klaus fled to Paris in March of 1933. He became one of one hundred thousand German refugees in France, losing his publisher, friends and associates, and readers in the process. He describes finding a German Jewish publisher in Amsterdam and the difficulties of starting a journal of migr writing. In 1934, his German passport expired and he was forced to renew temporary travel documents every six months. The President of Czechoslovakia offered citizenship to the entire Mann family in 1936 but then Hitler invaded that country and Klaus emigrated to the United States. Despite statelessness, bouts of syphilis and drug abuse, neither his pace of travel nor publication slowed. His novel Der Vulkan is among the most famous books about German exiles during World War II but it sold only 300 copies. Klaus stopped reading and writing German in the U.S. The writer must not cling with stubborn nostalgia to his mother tongue, he writes in The Turning Point. He must find a new vocabulary, a new set of rhythms and devices, a new medium to articulate his sorrow and emotions, his protests and his prayers. This extraordinary memoir, an eyewitness account of the rise of Nazism by an out gay man, was Klaus Manns first book written in English.
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