Klaus
Klaus is a novella that recounts the last days of Klaus Mann's life. It unlocks his relationship with both his father and his former lover, Gustaf, who was a communist before collaborating with the Nazi regime and becoming one of its most celebrated actors. On his return to Germany after the war, Klaus was outraged to see that Gustaf had now switched seamlessly to the post-war regime, and was once more the darling of the theatre world. Klaus, who had been isolated as both a homosexual and an anti-fascist, felt that Germans or rather those Germans in prominent positions were refusing to acknowledge their culpability. His isolation was now complete. "Fluid, understated, and precise; a telling portrait of a man in ruins."—Library Journal, Nov. 1, 2014 "This novella vividly re-creates the days and hours leading up to Klaus Mann's death by overdose and in so doing makes known to the public the inner life and struggles of a writer on the brink."—World Literature Today, March/April 15
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Klaus
Klaus is a novella that recounts the last days of Klaus Mann's life. It unlocks his relationship with both his father and his former lover, Gustaf, who was a communist before collaborating with the Nazi regime and becoming one of its most celebrated actors. On his return to Germany after the war, Klaus was outraged to see that Gustaf had now switched seamlessly to the post-war regime, and was once more the darling of the theatre world. Klaus, who had been isolated as both a homosexual and an anti-fascist, felt that Germans or rather those Germans in prominent positions were refusing to acknowledge their culpability. His isolation was now complete. "Fluid, understated, and precise; a telling portrait of a man in ruins."—Library Journal, Nov. 1, 2014 "This novella vividly re-creates the days and hours leading up to Klaus Mann's death by overdose and in so doing makes known to the public the inner life and struggles of a writer on the brink."—World Literature Today, March/April 15
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Klaus

by Allan Massie
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Klaus is a novella that recounts the last days of Klaus Mann's life. It unlocks his relationship with both his father and his former lover, Gustaf, who was a communist before collaborating with the Nazi regime and becoming one of its most celebrated actors. On his return to Germany after the war, Klaus was outraged to see that Gustaf had now switched seamlessly to the post-war regime, and was once more the darling of the theatre world. Klaus, who had been isolated as both a homosexual and an anti-fascist, felt that Germans or rather those Germans in prominent positions were refusing to acknowledge their culpability. His isolation was now complete. "Fluid, understated, and precise; a telling portrait of a man in ruins."—Library Journal, Nov. 1, 2014 "This novella vividly re-creates the days and hours leading up to Klaus Mann's death by overdose and in so doing makes known to the public the inner life and struggles of a writer on the brink."—World Literature Today, March/April 15

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781908251282
Publisher: Vagabond Voices
Publication date: 12/18/2014
Series: Vagabonds
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 152
Product dimensions: 7.70(w) x 5.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Allan Massie CBE (born 1938) is a Scottish journalist, columnist, sports writer and novelist. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has lived in the Scottish Borders for the last twenty-five years.
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