No Fun
David Blackbourn: Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 15 October 1998
Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-49
edited by Hans Wysling, translated by Don Reneau.
California, 444 pp., £40, March 1998,0 520 07278 2 Show More
edited by Hans Wysling, translated by Don Reneau.
California, 444 pp., £40, March 1998,
“... inferred from what Thomas writes, supplemented by Heinrich’s correspondence with others cited in Hans Wysling’s excellent notes. In the earliest letters Thomas’s everyday concerns are worked up into comedy – his release from military service for flat feet, the visit to a dentist ‘known for his dash’. This sets the tone for what becomes a ... ”
