Weimar in Princeton

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781501386480 Author(s): Stanley Corngold Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2022 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Pages: 216 Series: New Directions in German Studies

Description: Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi Germany, and feted in his new country as A?the greatest living man of letters.A? This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley Corngold tells the little known story of MannA?s early years in America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted A?©migrA?©s in Princeton, which came to be called the Kahler Circle, with Mann at its center. The Circle included immensely creative, mostly German-speaking exiles from Nazism, foremost Mann, Erich Kahler, Hermann Broch, and Albert Einstein, all of whom, during the CircleA?s nascent years in Princeton, were A?stupendouslyA? productive.In clear, engaging prose, Corngold explores the traces the Circle left behind during MannA?s stay in Princeton, treating literary works and political statements, anecdotes, contemporary history, and the CircleA?s afterlife. Weimar in Princeton portrays a fascinating scene of cultural production, at a critical juncture in the 20th century, and the experiences of an extraordinary group of writers and thinkers who gathered together to mourn a lost culture and to reckon with the new world in which they had arrived.

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