Thomas Mann, Tristan

David Gallagher (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

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First circulation or publication 1903

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Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novella

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Tristan

(1903), Thomas Mann’s first fully developed

Künstlernovelle

(artist novella), was originally rejected by the

Neue Deutsche Rundschau

as unsuitable for publication, but was later published by Samuel Fischer. In a letter of 13 February 1901 Mann wrote to his brother Heinrich announcing “

Eine Burleske

, die ich in Arbeit habe, und die wahrscheinlich ‘Tristan’ heissen wird” [“A burlesque I am working on, which will probably be called ‘Tristan’“]. This “burlesque“ novella shares with

Der kleine Herr Friedemann

[

Little Herr Friedemann

] the theme of the artist struggling for a means of self-expression, a fascination with music, notably the “Liebestod” motif adopted from Act III of Richard Wagner’s

Tristan und Isolde

[

Tristan and Isolde

, 1872], and a love…

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Citation: Gallagher, David. "Tristan". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 October 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12338, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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