A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political
transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United
States In September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning
author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany
for the United States. Heralded as "the greatest living man of
letters," Mann settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where, for nearly
three years, he was stunningly productive as a novelist, university
lecturer, and public intellectual. In The Mind in Exile, Stanley
Corngold portrays in vivid detail this crucial station in Mann's
journey from arch-European conservative to liberal conservative to
ardent social democrat. On the knife-edge of an exile that would
last fully fourteen years, Mann declared, "Where I am, there is
Germany. I carry my German culture in me." At Princeton, Mann
nourished an authentic German culture that he furiously observed
was "going to the dogs" under Hitler. Here, he wrote great chunks
of his brilliant novel Lotte in Weimar (The Beloved Returns); the
witty novella The Transposed Heads; and the first chapters of
Joseph the Provider, which contain intimations of his beloved
President Roosevelt's economic policies. Each of Mann's university
lectures-on Goethe, Freud, Wagner-attracted nearly 1,000 auditors,
among them the baseball catcher, linguist, and O.S.S. spy Moe Berg.
Meanwhile, Mann had the determination to travel throughout the
United States, where he delivered countless speeches in defense of
democratic values. In Princeton, Mann exercised his "stupendous
capacity for work" in a circle of friends, all highly accomplished
exiles, including Hermann Broch, Albert Einstein, and Erich Kahler.
The Mind in Exile portrays this luminous constellation of
intellectuals at an extraordinary time and place.
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