Klaus Mann was one of the most active European writers with an antifascist mission. In 1937 he moved to the United States, began writing in English, and became an American citizen in 1943. He died in Cannes in 1949. Mann's works have been translated into more than 20 languages. The best known are Mephisto, The Turning Point, André Gide and the Crisis of Modern Thought, and Escape to Life.
"The really significant contributions are the erotic passages and the recreation of European musical society. . . . The final death drama is a romantic and Shakespearean curtain scene that has the splendid emotionalism of Tchaikovsky's own finales." --New York Times Book Review"Mann portrays a time of bourgeois prejudice. Tchaikovsky's relationships with younger men of all classes made him constantly afraid of humiliation, public scandals, and blackmail." --Christopher Street"Mann presents some charming scenes of the Tchaikovsky family . . . he takes Tchaikovsky through his tours, his triumphs, his failures, his creations, his disappointments, his friendships, his loves. A host of musicians walk through the pages --Brahms, Grieg, Rubenstein, Moussorgsky-the great age of great artists." --The Saturday Review of Literature"An interesting version of the emotional rearing and bucking that seems to accompany or result in major artistic output." --The New Yorker
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