In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain
The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

1 Kindertheater
2 Journey without Sleep
3 The Lights Go Down
4 Pathetic Symphony
5 Escape to Life
6 The Turning Point
7 The Last Day
8 Rainy Night, Windy Morrow
Notes
Index
“Andrea Weiss proves here that complex life forms can thrive in the dark. In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain illuminates not only its primary subjects, Erika and Klaus Mann, but also the father who overshadowed them. A brilliant and important work of historical and literary portraiture.”
“Weiss has got hold of an intrinsically dramatic story, and she tells it well. The dual lives of Thomas Mann’s eldest children combine homosexuality, political conflict, and the unfathomable burden of being the offspring of Germany’s greatest living writer. The chief merit of Weiss’s lively rendering of this story is the way she links the fates of Mann’s progeny not only to one another but to many of the major figures of European culture. Hence her book also tells us a great deal about the lives of anti-fascist intellectuals and artists in the Nazi era.”
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Won Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
History: American History | European History
Literature and Literary Criticism: American and Canadian Literature
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