本书收录了德国两位文学巨匠托马斯•曼与赫尔曼•黑塞在1910年至1955年间的通信往来。黑塞与托马斯•曼的出身、艺术趣味和读者群体都不尽相同，但两人追求真理的渴望却如出一辙，通过与传统的联系，致力于道德与精神、伦理与美学的互动，这在他们不时相互呼应的创作主题中得以呈现。黑塞很早就开始关注托马斯•曼的创作，后者则称黑塞是“同代作家中很早就选定的最亲近之人”。对托马斯•曼而言，文学创作是他实现入世雄心、建立个人风格的途径，对黑塞则是忏悔和灵魂的自疗。他们借由文字和图画交换创作灵感、分享阅读体验和日常生活。两次世界大战前后，两位高尚的写作者就战争的愚蠢、纳粹的野蛮行径和战时的国内外文学图景多次通信交换彼此的意见，也为战后德国和欧洲未来的命运感到担忧。他们生活在一个可怖的时代，但他们从未向绝望妥协。两人借由书信相互安慰扶持，在对方遭到外界诋毁时为其辩护。这对旗鼓相当又坚定而独立的伙伴充分精妙地表达了出身、气质和生活态度的差异，但又表现出殊途同归的艺术旨趣，这让他们的对话具有特殊的吸引力，为读者提供了一份从文化和当代史角度来看都极为丰厚的文学遗产。

A title in the Bristol Classical Press German Texts series, in German with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. Thomas Mann (1875-1955), was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929, and "Tonio Kroger" occupies a central position in his spiritual and artistic development. A study of youth, it draws together many strands of his life and work: the duality of his parentage; his abhorrence of discipline; and the influence of Schopenhauer and Wagner on his early phase of writing.

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Deutscher Prinz trifft amerikanische Milliardärstochter. In diesem Roman zeigt sich Thomas Mann von einer heiteren Seite und schafft trotzdem ein ernsthaftes Sinnbild für die aufbrechende Moderne.

Königliche Hoheit: Roman by Thomas Mann

Indtoduction from 'The Short Novels of Dostoyevsky'[Published June 1945 by Dial Press/Doubleday (NY)contains:
The Gambler
Notes from Underground
Uncle's Dream
The Eternal Husband
The Double
The Friend of the Family]

《死于威尼斯(精)》是托马斯·曼流传最广、最具知名度的中篇小说。从《死于威尼斯》中可看出他在思想和情感上经历的矛盾、痛苦和追求，看到他逐渐形成文字精雕细刻，语言幽默讽刺，略带夸张、揶揄的独特叙事风格，为他以后的长篇巨著奠定了基础。本书还收入作者的中篇小说《特里斯坦》。

Text: German

【《布登勃洛克一家》德国首部格调高雅的现实主义长篇小说 托马斯·曼荣膺诺贝尔文学奖之作】
　　
☆ 1901年，曼因创作了这部长篇小说处女作而蜚声文坛，尽显峥嵘。
　　
☆ 不仅被公认为曼创作的第一个高峰，而且给年仅26岁的他带来了哲学家的美称。
　　
☆ 到1929年他获得诺贝尔文学奖时，此书销售量已超百万册。
　　
☆ 瑞典学院表示，诺贝尔奖授予曼主要是因这部“伟大的作品”，称其为“德国首部格调高雅的现实主义长篇小说”。



【《布登勃洛克一家》一部家族衰亡录 德国市民阶级的心灵史】
　　
☆ 曼的一生，其实只讲述了一个故事，那就是“德国市民变化的故事”。
　　
☆ 布登勃洛克家族四代人，四百多位人物，半个世纪的叙述时间浓缩在六百多页的空间内。
　　
☆ 通过布登勃洛克家族在经济、社会地位和道德等方面的衰落和瓦解，深刻地揭示了德国市民社会灭亡的必然趋势。
　☆ 德国19世纪后半期社会发展的艺术缩影。


　　
本书是吕贝克望族布登勃洛克家族四代人从1835年到1877年间的兴衰史。通过布登勃洛克家族在垄断资产阶级家族的排挤、打击下逐渐衰落的历史描写，详细的揭示了资本主义的旧的刻意盘剥和新的掠夺兼并方式的激烈竞争和历史成败，

One of the most influential works of 20th century German literature, it tells the story of Hans Castorp, a young orphan who, while visiting his cousin in a sanatorium where she is being treated for tuberculosis, contracts the illness himself and ends up remaining for treatment. The isolated sanatorium becomes his entire world, while functioning as a reflection of pre-war Europe.
Written prior to World War I, and heavily revised afterwards, it is a complex and dense novel that effortlessly blends realism and symbolism, and it has fascinated critics and scholars since its publication.
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