Author: Thomas Mann

Cites

• Dante Alighieri (1)
  • IN: Doctor Faustus (1947) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: Lo giorno se n'andava e l'aere bruno / toglieva gli animai che sono in terra / dalle fatiche loro, ed io sol uno / ,'apparecchiava a sostener la guerra / si del cammino e si della pietate, / che ritrarra la mente wue non erra. / O Muse, o alto ingegno, or m'aiutate, / o mente che scrivesti cio ch'io vidi, / qui si parra la tua nobilitate.
    FROM: Inferno, Canto II, (1472), Poem, Italy
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1)
  • IN: Lotte in Weimar (1939) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Durch allen Schall und Klang Der Transoxanen Drkuhnt sich unser Sang Auf deine Bahnen! Uns ist fur gar nichts bang, In dir lebendig; Dein Leben daure lang, Dein Reich bestandig!
    FROM: West-östlicher Diwan, (1819), Poem, Germany

Cited by

• Ned Beauman (1)
  • IN: The Teleportation Accident (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "I hate politics and belief in politics, because it makes men arrogant, doctrinate, obstinate, and inhuman."
    FROM: Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, (1918), Book, Germany
• Dean Koontz (2)
  • IN: The City (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
    FROM: The Beloved Returns, (1939), Novel, Germany
  • IN: Phantoms (1983) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The civilized human spirit… cannot Get rid of a feeling of the uncanny
    FROM: Dr. Faustus, (1947), Play, Germany
• Michael Smith (1)
  • IN: Rivers (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.
    FROM: Death in Venice, (1983), Short story, Germany
• Simone Zelitch (1)
  • IN: Judenstart (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Out of this universal feast of death, out of this extremity of fever, kindling the rain washed evening sky to a fiery glow, may it be that Love one day shall mount?
    FROM: The Magic Mountain, (1924), Novel, Germany
• Philip Roth (1)
  • IN: Letting Go (1961) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All actuality is deadly earnest; and it is morality itself that, one with life, forbids us to be true to the guileless unrealism of our youth.
    FROM: A Sketch of My Life, (1930), Book, Germany