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Author Name: Mann, Katia
Title: Unwritten Memories
Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: New York Knopf 1975
ISBN Number: 0-394-49403-2 / 9780394494036
Seller ID: 304-4151
Very Good+ in a Very Good dustjacket. Black boards quarterbound in green cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in gilt. Green topstain. Octavo. [ix] + 165pps., + 16 pages of photos. There is mild bumping and rubbing to the board-edges and a faint pencil-erasure in the upper corner of the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The text is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no inscriptions. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, is lightly soiled, has mild rubbing wear at the extremities, and a 1/2" chip at the heel of the spine; the original price is intact.
"...For the first time, Thomas Mann's wife of over fifty years breaks her long silence, recounting their life together in a warm and fascinating book that brings alive a man, a marriage, a whole artistic and intellectual world.
In a voice full of generosity and humor, quick to the epigram and the telling detail, Katia Mann reminisces. About how they met (he knew her face from a painting he had clipped from the local newspaper without knowing who she was -- but he was actually and instantly smitten when he saw her arguing 'like a fury' with a streetcar conductor). About their marriage, despite her father's hesitation and despite her own initial misgivings, overcome by determined wooing and passionate love letters. About the local reaction to 'Buddenbrooks.' About his relationship with his brother Heinrich and with their gifted, beautiful, half-Brazilian mother. About his friendships and disputes with other writers, his anti-Nazism and the German response to it.
Thomas Mann, the extraordinary and complicated human being -- the writer, the encouraging mentor to young writers, the devoted husband and father, the saddened German -- from his youth through his literary triumphs and his tragic exile, is here recalled with enormous charm and love in a memoir that comes from a born storyteller..."
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KATIA MANN THOMAS UNWRITTEN MEMORIES FIRST EDITIONS BIOGRAPHY MEMOIRS JOURNALS GERMAN AUTHORS LITERATURE GERMANY SWITZERLAND
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