Klaus Mann
Born
in München, Germany
November 18, 1906
Died
May 21, 1949
Genre
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Mephisto
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published
1936
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23 editions
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Der Wendepunkt
by
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published
1942
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44 editions
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Der Vulkan
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published
1939
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37 editions
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Der fromme Tanz
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published
1926
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27 editions
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Symphonie Pathétique
by
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published
1935
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32 editions
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Flucht in den Norden
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published
1934
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23 editions
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Treffpunkt im Unendlichen
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published
1932
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23 editions
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Alexander. Roman der Utopie.
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published
1929
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29 editions
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Finestra con le sbarre
by
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published
1937
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11 editions
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Kind dieser Zeit
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published
1932
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11 editions
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“Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember......”
― The Turning Point: Thirty-Five Years in this Century, the Autobiography of Klaus Mann
― The Turning Point: Thirty-Five Years in this Century, the Autobiography of Klaus Mann
“The worst will happen. Think of me, children, when that day comes. I have foreseen it and predicted it. Our age is corrupt. It stinks. Think of me - I smelled it out. I am not deceived. I sense the coming catastrophe. It will be like nothing that has ever happened. Everything will be swallowed up, which will be no loss-except in my case. Everything that exists will fall apart. It is rotten. I have sensed it, tasted it and cast it away from me. When it comes, it will bury us all. I pity you children, for you will not be able to live your lives. Whereas I have had a beautiful life”
― Mephisto
― Mephisto
“„Der Propagandaminister -- Herr über das geistige Leben eines Millionenvolkes -- humpelte behende durch die glänzende Menge, die sich vor ihm verneigte. Eine eisige Luft schien zu wehen, wo er vorbeiging. Es war, als sei eine böse, gefährliche, einsame und grausame Gottheit herniedergestiegen in den ordinären Trubel genusssüchtiger, feiger und erbärmlicher Sterblicher. Einige Sekunden lang war die ganze Gesellschaft wie gelähmt vor Entsetzen. Die Tanzenden erstarrten mitten in ihrer anmutigen Pose, und ihr scheuer Blick hing, zugleich demütig und hassvoll, an dem gefürchteten Zwerg. Der versuchte durch ein charmantes Lächeln, welches seinen mageren, scharfen Mund bis zu den Ohren hinaufzerrte, die schauerliche Wirkung, die von ihm ausging, ein wenig zu mildern; er gab sich Mühe, zu bezaubern, zu versöhnen und seine tief liegenden, schlauen Augen freundlich blicken zu lassen. Seinen Klumpfuß graziös hinter sich her ziehend, eilte er gewandt durch den Festsaal und zeigte dieser Gesellschaft von zweitausend Sklaven, Mitläufern, Betrügern, Betrogenen und Narren sein falsches, bedeutendes Raubvogelprofil.”
― Mephisto
― Mephisto
Polls
May 2016 New School Group Read
1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 478 pages
1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 407 pages
1903, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, 172 pages
1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, 288 pages
1996, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, 835 pages
1914, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pages
1913, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 134 pages
1957, On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 296 pages
1993, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, 448 pages
1949, The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, 276 pages
1922, Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, 356 pages
1936, Mephisto by Klaus Mann, 272 pages
1924, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 225 pages
1933, Lost Horizon by James Hilton, 241 pages
1989, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 544 pages
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