In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain by Andrea Weiss
Thomas Mann's two eldest children, Erika and Klaus, were unconventional, rebellious, and fiercely devoted to each other. Empowered by their close bond, they espoused vehemently anti-Nazi views in a Europe swept up in fascism and were openly, even defiantly, gay in an age of secrecy and repression. This book tells their story.
"Weiss has got hold of an intrinsically dramatic story, and she tells it wellthe dual lives of Thomas Mann's eldest children combine homosexuality, political conflict, and the unfathomable burden of being the offspring of Germany's greatest living writer. The chief merit of Weiss's lively rendering of this story is the way she links the fates of Mann's progeny not only to one another but to many of the major figures of European culture. Hence her book tells us a great deal about the lives of anti-fascist intellectuals and artists in the Nazi era." - Paul Robinson, author of Gay Lives: Homosexual Autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette"
Andrea Weiss is associate professor in the Film/Video Program at the City College of New York and the author of Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank and Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film. She has been an independent filmmaker for over twenty-five years, and her documentary Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story will be released on DVD in 2008.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226886725 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226886727 |
| Title | In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain |
| Author | Andrea Weiss |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2008-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Winner of Triangle Awards (Lesbian Nonfiction) 2009 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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