Klaus Mann - A European-American Author

ISBN-13: 9783631779798 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 330 str.

Chiara Marotta

Opis

This book explores the German and English writings of Klaus Mann on America and for an American public. It focuses on his magazine Decision, his autobiographies The Turning Point and Der Wendepunkt, and his fictional works, including Speed, Der Vulkan, and The Last Day. It proposes a portrait of the author as an indefatigable cultural mediator.

Spis treści

Exile Literature - German Emigration - Self-Translation - America - Mediation - The Turning Point - Der Wendepunkt - Speed The Last Day - Der Vulkan - Decision - Distinguished Visitors - Rundherum - The Seventh Angel - Der siebente Engel - Gegenüber von China - Exile Autobiography - Language Switch - Language Choice - New York - American Landscape - Innere Exilgeographie

O autorze

Chiara Marotta studied Italian literature and European literary cultures at the University of Bologna and the University of Strasbourg. Her research interests include exile literature, autobiographical writing, and bilingualism.