Buy this book on-line MANN, GOLO - Translated by Krishna Winston: : Reminiscences & Reflections: Growing up in GermanyLONDON.FABER & FABER,1990. ISBN 0571151515.
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This is the first volume of autobiography by the eighty-year old Golo Mann,son of the famous novelist father,younger brother of Erika,the actress and sometime wife of W.H.Auden,and of Klaus Mann author of Mephisto.Golo Mann describes the years 1909-33,a period which covers his precocious childhood,his inspiring education at Schloss Salem,an exclusive boarding school run by Kurt Hahn,and his studies at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg,where, amongst others,he was taught by the existential philosopher Karl Jaspers.The book ends with Golo recalling the ominous signs of Nazism,and his own first sight,and sound, of Adolf Hitler.A historian of world-renown,Golo Mann is in his element as an historical and political writer, and he offers us an exceptionally clear-sighted view of the Germany of the twenties.But this book is also a profound personal testimony in the true Romantic tradition of literature about childhood and growing-up.The author revisits his young self,and with compelling insight recalls and relives formative experiences - a terrifying errand to the home of a dead aunt,Christmas Buddenbrooks style, friendship with an extraordinary fellow student who committed suicide.Golo Mann has a novelist's ability to see inside a character; this book should be read not only by students of 20thC cultural and social history but by everyone who has read and loved 'The Magic Mountain.'
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