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    Georg Lukacs, Essays On Thomas Mann, Tr. Stanley Mitchell

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    Thomas Mann, Literary Criticism, Realism, Marxism

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    Essays on THOMAS MANN GEORG LUKACS Trmaed from the Gorman by STANLEY MITCHELL & ‘The Universal Library GHOSSER & DUNLAP © 1964 BY MERLIN PRESS LTD Engl Translion © 1964 by Meso Pros Le ‘A UNIVERSAL LIBRARY ORIGINAL Fiat Aneta Bsn 1965 By eramgement ith Merlin Pre Le Lirary of Congres anlog Cal Nomber: 65:23507 Alt Right Reseed ah = Contents Trantor’ Note Foreword In Search of Bourgcis Man “The Tragedy of Modern Art “The Mayful Sipe ‘Appendix: Royel Highness “Thomas Mann on the Literary Hetage Thelast Great Cri Relst Index Bs 4 160 165 Translator’s Note Inall cases Ihave used the standard translations for Lukes’ quotations from Thomas Mann. Only once or twice have T changed a phrase or word in onder to match Lukics’s reading oft ‘The verse renderings are my own with the exception of the lines on page 46 which are taken from Louis Macneic’s trans lation of Faust ‘Thefootnote are the translator's SM. ellie lll ai ara ee Foreword Tse seas, hough pepe form + small book do not pretend to give an allround comprehensive picture ‘of Thomas Mann's intellectual and artic development. They ere, of course, intended to throw light on the central problems of his work. The fst in honour of his 70th birthday, eres to slucdate Manns dialetcally complex attitude to the middle lass, which in my opinion, forms the social and hence raispring of his entice eater. The seoond deals with his posi tion visavis middle ass culture and art in his Faust novel and the light it chrows on his whole development. The third attempts to relate his styl, his afinity with and divergence from con temporary trends to his total utlok. This approach determines the particular emphases of the essays In a systematic account of Mann's work Lote in Weimar and the Joseph cycle especially, to mention only the most important works, Would have had to bedeae with at greater length, TET have published these essays in one little volume, it was because of subjective and objective resons which I must briely explain. My subjective reason is simply that I can hardly hope now to produce a systematic teatment of Mann's work, Publishing these essays in book form i, therefore, a mark of res ‘And yet [fel justified (ubjectively and objectively in publish. ing them, painful as the resignation i. Subjecively these essays, despite thelr incompleteness and essayist character, do sum up eras eeeeeee mess eae ee alegre cau aaans Ser tnsspr alia eosae vid bee eae oo TE S| pli eer Pe ee eae ee eam to vuibsanjeatc cua edie wes Pal alete page Mise cay ca a pe aerate ogee et cet ca Sobires queue ey lowing ey esciee 3 yal ny Hagan ew ee ea Sey bpeacitkinstinnocpeacnrige SiSuilprelads ov uniter lupe trea easy bya nae Lericrosniy occu egd cutee soncias uel vaten's wien tata arr itens Yas e tape Pat Wend Wer ‘Thomas Mann held the views he described in Reflections of en ommoe Meyt ou bea ws Mico al al a Ugretettaar al vcapue tar ane Ba cet alt owe ego tte ect ane Cc a rar paces er Gre sapl tusracttasa pony Hee omet vee tn Vince pepecnaag bs gi toe Wt Si caudg raaript ners lei wll oe drut nag scan Peed wegen beg ton ek 7 apts pegcustana tore aia Piste Sach ete tok hak olor wees b Ropanrwarian ud sanctions SS catigull arcaurmaaeToarore a Ere ocad cay raat posh orrrrey te oie pind 0 FOREWORD more objective work on Mana, The esay Thomas Mann on the Literary Heritage (International Lterture 1933) is merely the frst milestone of this new argument between us. As I Took back on it realize that it was stl too abstract and insufficiently diz lectial. (This esay, to, is included here as a document of my evelopment in this question.) The literary battles for 2 contem porary realism took me further and further into Manns work. My esays of the late thirties bear the plain traces of this re. appraisal ‘All this has needed saying to show the reader that Ihave the sight, subjectively, to regard these essays not as occasional pects put Cogether by kind permission of the publisher but as the résumé (obviously incomplete and essayist in character) of a development which extends over decades. And I hope that his personal history gives objective grounds for treating them as such, For Ido not think it was just a personal concern to have seen in the dialectic of art and the bourgeoisie the essence ofthe carly Mann. Ths formulation is not merely a statement of what the writer Mann was striving to express. Essentially, though of ‘course at that time in embryonic form, it stated a key problem of dying bourgeois culture as 2 whole, tbe sen in Manns works ssmuch asia my critical analysisof them, ‘More than four decades have passed since then. We have had two major wars and evelve year of fascism; for over thirty years socialism has existed and grown strong in the Soviet Union. Thomas Mann's path led him over these years from Tonio Koger tothe tragedy of Adrian Leverkil, that ofthe typical modern bourgeols aris and of typical modern bourgeois at, n- Aisslubly connected with the eagedy of the German peoples misdirected development. If today, after three decades of theo: retiel and practical preoccupation with Marxism, 1 have ctempred to interpre this idecgieal decay of the bourgeoisie ‘hes apa in the Hooke Mark ad Egle Lit Hisrin ‘The Turning Point and Bvsys on Reem which are so far vntanaated in the work ofthe lst great bourgeois writer, I dare hope ob: jectively that my reflections touch the nub both of Thomas Mann's own work and of the cultural esis of our time, Budapest, January 1963. 2 In Search of Bourgeois Man ing within you The fons of rk foe Writing is puting ov tral ‘Your most sel Thee, 1 ese mroreeee eee eerie Seeker Fee ences Seesecee nee eee eens eee ane me Seoeeesecnaee mae pete eee eee Seeenimnerer eae eee aa Seis eciees tatt peterpan arg er Soap gre Snare Spee B {nto a present-day reality There ate nota few great realist works which are shaped inthis way. I would mention only Goethe's ‘Wilhelm Meister noves. However kindred Mann is to Goethe, here hes his pola opposite. ‘Ths reemphasizrs the bourgeois ideal a the guiding principle ‘in Manns life and work. He ls vightly considered the most re presentative German writer in the fst half of our century. A opie can, however, be epresente by diferent types of wie. ‘There are ‘epresentative' writes who ae prophets of the future, and others whose genius and isin i isto be ‘mirrors of the ‘work’, Schlle's urgency and retesnest was jst a5 "epesen- tative" as Goethe's embrace of the moment. But likening Mann to Goethe (orto Balzac or Tolstoy), calling him a ‘neo’ sil oes not tll us what is spe oh. ‘Goethe's Meister novels contain Utopian elements; there are similar features in Balzac, Keller and Tolstoy. We do not find them in Thomas Mann. We ae faced then with a special type of ‘representative writer. Thomas Mann presents a complete ple- ture of bourgeis life and its pedicaments. But ii picture of 4 precse moment, precise stage of development. (Tite, his por teat of the Geman bourgeis of the present only goes up to the petod before fascism. So far Mann has not given usa pietur of the German as fascist or opponent of fascism). This & why many Germans rediscover themselves so much more deeply, at once sore diretly and intimately, in Mann's work than in that of ‘other writers, And since the problems are left unanswered, ot answered inthe most roundabout way, since chy ate communi- ‘ated at many levels which are in turn ironically solved, the Impact of Mann's novels has been much greater than that of his contemporaries. Whatever claims his writing makes on the readers artistic judgment, whatever the intellectual require rents of is delicately spun web of questions and reservations, his plots and characters are simply and straightforward drawn and accesible to the simplest person. And since it is @ moral ‘word order that he rejects, the impact is a lasting one. The “ moments e choses always mak a pate sage inthe de ‘lopment ofthe Geman mide cs one to wbihall who have Conti ved hugh thee wan dhe county’ past wl fel themes pepe dwn "This very ida Kad of epeenatin” deepens with ‘Thomas Man's slow ongini development. Here, fhe 3 in mony with the marcha ait. Realty, of eons. Ini dating te second half of Man's Me, was stormy enough, fd it wa ievable that thi tempo sould e rected in Mann's writing But this cold not afect the epic character of Ne wok aa whole which was ted in these of very Iesurely storytel, The works which rec these leat Savane ein arid

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