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Thomas Mann's 1947 Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde adapts the Faust legend to a 20th-century context, documenting the life of fictional composer Adrian Leverkühn as analog and embodiment of the early 20th-century history of Germany and of Europe.
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In both the farmer's tale in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and in Thomas Mann's The Holy Sinner, the incest hero rises above the myth by accepting the wish as motive ; ;
File: Nida ThomasMann cottage. jpg | Horse head gables on German author Thomas Mann's cottage in Nida, Lithuania
In addition Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil was published in 1945 and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus in 1947.
Thomas Mann's novella The Tables of the Law is a retelling of the story of the exodus from Egypt, with Moses as its main character.
In response to the publication of Thomas Mann's The Black Swan, Adorno penned a long letter to the author, who then approved its publication in the literary journal Akzente.
* Johann " Hanno " Buddenbrook, in Thomas Mann's novel, Buddenbrooks, dies of typhoid fever, and the book includes a long medical description of the disease and its effects.
So too is Thomas Mann's Adventures of Felix Krull, Confidence Man ( 1954 ), which like many novels emphasizes the theme of a charmingly roguish ascent in the social order.
In Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain Herr Settembrini refers to the Director Behrens of the sanatorium as Rhadamanthus.
The last chapter of book five in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain is also called " Walpurgisnacht ".
From the age of ten until she was twelve she was treated for tuberculosis at the Waltzaner Sanatorium in Davos which was the setting for Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain.
These include the renowned Excelsior and the Des Bains, setting for Thomas Mann's classic novel Death in Venice.
The novel has exerted a major influence on later German writers, including Thomas Mann's early work Buddenbrooks.
In Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice ( as well as the opera by Benjamin Britten and the film by Luchino Visconti ) a fop is derided by the main character, Gustave von Aschenbach ; ironically so, as Aschenbach ultimately dresses in this manner himself.
Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain, which admittedly was written after the war but is set in a sanatorium during these years gives a picture of the intellectually lively atmosphere.
" Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus and James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man both left marks upon his perception of music and the arts.
In 1958 Fleming holidayed with his wife Ann in Venice and at the Lido peninsula ; Fleming was a great admirer of Thomas Mann's work Death in Venice, which was based on the Lido and the Flemings visited it for that reason, using the location as the backdrop for " Risico ".
Based on the evidence of Thomas Mann's letters and diaries, Mann was infatuated with Ehrenberg, and they had an intense personal relationship from 1899 to about 1903.
Thomas Mann spent some time there in 1895 and, two years later, during the long harsh summer of 1897, he stayed over again, with his brother Heinrich Mann, in a sojourn that provided the backdrop, nearly half a century later, for Adrian Leverkühn's pact with the Devil in Mann's novel Doktor Faustus
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The history of video games goes as far back as the 1940s, when in 1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a " cathode ray tube amusement device.
On January 25, 1947, Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a " cathode ray tube amusement device ".
His wife, the daughter of Thomas Moore of Philadelphia, was also painted in 1892 by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury ( 1862 – 1947 ).
Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 ): " The Metamorphosis " ( 1915 ), The Trial ( 1925 ), The Castle ( 1926 ); Rainer Maria Rilke ( 1875-1926 ): The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( 1910 ); Alfred Döblin ( 1857-1957 ): Berlin Alexanderplatz ( 1929 ); Wyndham Lewis ( 1882-1957 ); Djuna Barnes ( 1892-1982 ): Nightwood ( 1936 ); Malcolm Lowry ( 1909-57 ): Under the Volcano ( 1947 ); Ernest Hemingway ; William Faulkner ; James Hanley ( 1897-1985 ); James Joyce ( 1882-1941 ): " The Nighttown " section of Ulysses ( 1922 ); Patrick White ( 1912-90 ); D. H. Lawrence ; Sheila Watson: Double Hook ; Elias Canetti: Auto de Fe ; Thomas Pynchon.
Thomas was platted in three sections: Thomas Fisheries ( 1942 ), Thomas Park ( 1947 ) and Thomas ( 1957 ) subdivisions.
Instead, according to an FBI memorandum in 1947: " T-10 advised Special Agent deleted that he has been made a member of a committee headed by Mayer, the purpose of which is allegedly is to ' purge ' the motion-picture industry of Communist party members, which committee was an outgrowth of the Thomas committee hearings in Washington and subsequent meetings.
Major recordings include the Bach Cello Suites in 1960 ( Paris ) and 1982 ( London ), Elgar's Cello Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult conducting in 1972, and Strauss ’ s Don Quixote with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham conducting in 1947 / 48 and the Staatskapelle Dresden, Rudolf Kempe conducting in 1973 ( all for EMI for whom he was under exclusive contract ).
Tommy James ( born Thomas Gregory Jackson, 29 April 1947, Dayton, Ohio ) is an American pop-rock musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as leader of the 1960s rock band Tommy James and the Shondells.
* Thomas Cape M. B. E ( 1868 – 1947 )-Labour politician and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Workington from 1918 to 1945.
Thomas Dale " Tom " DeLay (; born April 8, 1947 ) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1984 until 2006.
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