![]() He has said of himself that he was once a "non-political Mann's career that he, who is so supremely a thinker and an intellectual, should twice in his life have ignored or misunderstood political issues. In all his recent novels the philosophizing smothers the story telling. Of interesting characters involved in interesting circumstances. Most of his work has been fiction, novels and short stories but little of his work has possessed the ordinary virtues of fiction, the ability to interest though the creation Readers subtle and intricate analyses of Mr. Mann has devoted his life to a series of books that convey to their A master of literature and a profound student of the life of man, Mr. ![]() His erudition is stupendous, his achievements are enormous. No writer in this century has won such universal ambition and Trange indeed are the works of Thomas Mann and strange the mind that gives them birth. The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as Told by a Friend. ![]() OctoBooks of the Times By ORVILLE PRESCOTT ![]()
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