Literary Giant of the 20th Century -- Thomas Mann

Author: Huang Liyu
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Publish Date: 1999-12-01
Features: Thomas Mann, under new historical conditions, reflected and portrayed the turbulent era, complex and contradictory life, and the suffering fate of the oppressed and wronged with new concepts, characteristics, and tendencies, aesthetically and sensitively. They inherited and developed the forms and techniques of 19th-century realism in art and widely adopted montage, stream of consciousness, abstraction, absurdity, direct or indirect inner monologue, as well as legends and myths. The richness and diversity of 20th-century realism in form and technique, as well as its borrowing and absorption of forms and techniques from non-realistic schools, are not a crisis or alienation of realism. On the contrary, this is the progressiveness of realism. Lenin said, "With the discovery of each new era, even in the field of natural science (let alone the history of humanity), materialism is bound to change its form." I think that literary and artistic creation is no exception.