Essays on Thomas Mann

Essays on Thomas Mann by Georg Lukacs is a critical study of Thomas Mann. Lukács interprets Mann as a major realist writer who captured the moral, cultural, and social crises of bourgeois Europe, highlighting his psychological depth and historical awareness within a Marxist literary framework. Georg (György) Lukács, (1885-1971) is one of the most important literary critics and philosophers of the 20th century. His literary works include: The Destruction of Reason, The Historical Novel, The Theory of the Novel among others. His History and Class Consciousness established his reputation as a major Marxist theoretician. He served in Hungarian governments twice: once in the midst of the revolution in 1919, and again, as Minister of Culture, in the anti-Stalinist regime that emerged in 1956.