The themes of guilt and redemption that grew ever stronger in Thomas Mann's fiction are generally ascribed to the author's homosexuality, this, many critics have said, is the basis of the dynamic underlying his creative work in general, and the reason for Mann's panic in 1933 that his early diaries would fall into the hands of the Nazis. Michael ...
Does it ring a bell? The first-person narrator, a cultivated man of middle age, looks back on the story of an amour fou. It all starts when, travelling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The moment he sees the daughter of the house, he is lost. She is a pre-teen, whose charms instantly enslave him. Heedless of her age, he becomes intimate with ...
Quand Michael Maar publia en mars 2004 dans la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, aussitot relayee par le Times Literary Supplement, qu'une nouvelle intitulee Lolita avait paru pres de quarante ans avant le celebre roman de Vladimir Nabokov, il declenchait un debat de portee internationale et provoquait un vif emoi parmi les Nabokoviens. Son propos ...
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