[Lebensabriß]
Year:
1930
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
City:
Londres
Year of publication:
1961
Pages:
87
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
Violent content:
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Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) wrote several autobiographical essays, and this is one of them. Written in 1929 on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Prize, it offers an initial assessment of his life and career, focusing on his development as a writer. It helps us understand the autobiographical dimension of his work, his interest in essays, and the perfectionism underlying his novels. He reveals his individualistic and solitary nature, family dramas, his passion for Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, his artistic tastes, what he found in Catholic liturgy, and his conversations with Protestant pastors...
Readers of Mann, as well as writers in general, will greatly enjoy this work and find its pages a valuable lesson.
Author: Manuel Martínez, Spain
Update on: Oct 2026