{"product_id":"cursed-legacy-the-tragiv-life-of-klaus-man","title":"Frederic Spotts: Cursed Legacy [2016] hardback","description":"Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann's comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the author of \u003ci\u003eMephisto\u003c\/i\u003e, the literary \u003ci\u003eenfant terrible\u003c\/i\u003e of the Weimar era produced seven novels, a dozen plays, four biographies, and three autobiographies-among them the first works in Germany to tackle gay issues-amidst a prodigious artistic output. He was among the first to take up his pen against the Nazis, as a reward for which he was blacklisted and denounced as a dangerous half-Jew, his books burnt in public squares around Germany, and his citizenship revoked. Having served with the U.S. military in Italy, he was nevertheless undone by anti-Communist fanatics in Cold War-era America and Germany, dying in France (though not, as all other books contend, by his own hand) at age forty-two. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Powerful, revealing, and compulsively readable, this first English-language biography of Klaus Mann charts the effects of reactionary politics on art and literature and tells the moving story of a supreme talent destroyed by personal circumstance and the seismic events of the twentieth century.","brand":"Spotts, Frederic","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44309864513826,"sku":"9780300218008","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/spotts-frederic-cursed-legacy-the-tragiv-life-of-klaus-man-9780300218008-40346827096354.jpg?v=1673695963","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/cursed-legacy-the-tragiv-life-of-klaus-man","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}