Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
"Tonio Kröger" by Thomas Mann is a novella written in 1901. It traces a writer's journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the painful divide between artistic sensitivity and bourgeois life. Born to a German merchant father and artistic mother, Tonio feels both superior to and envious of those around him. As he matures into a famous writer, he grapples with a haunting question: must the artist remain forever an outsider to respectable
society? A journey to his northern hometown forces him to confront this tension between art and life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 |
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| Illustrator | Simon, Erich M., 1892- |
| Title |
Tonio Kröger [Erstausgabe; Illustrationen von Erich M. Simon] |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonio_Kr%C3%B6ger |
| Credits | Produced by Jana Srna |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Artists -- Fiction |
| Subject | Denmark -- Fiction |
| Subject | Germany, Northern -- Fiction |
| Subject | Munich (Germany) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 38692 |
| Release Date | Jan 27, 2012 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 8, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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