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FPUL Small Talk: “The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton,” featuring Professor Stanley Corngold

On September 7, the Friends of Princeton University Library Small Talk series returns with Professor Stanley Corngold, an emeritus professor of German and Comparative Literature, and a discussion about Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann’s pivotal time in Princeton.

In September 1938, Thomas Mann, author of “Death in Venice” and “The Magic Mountain,” fled Nazi Germany for the United States. Heralded as “the greatest living man of letters,” Mann settled in Princeton, where, for nearly three years, he was stunningly productive as a novelist, university lecturer, and public intellectual. In Princeton, Mann exercised his “stupendous capacity for work” in a circle of friends, all highly accomplished exiles, including Hermann Broch, Albert Einstein, and Erich Kahler. 

In two recent books, “The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton” (Princeton) and “Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle” (Bloomsbury), Professor Corngold portrays in vivid detail this crucial station in Mann’s journey from arch-European conservative to liberal conservative to ardent social democrat. 

Join us for this fascinating talk about some of the extraordinary events occurring within this luminous constellation of intellectuals at an extraordinary time and place.

Registration details:

In-person: Open to current Friends members. The talk will be followed by light refreshments.

Virtual: Open to the public.

Date:
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Time:
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Center for Modern Aging (formerly PSRC), 101 Poor Farm Road, Princeton, NJ 08540
Audience:
  First-Year Graduate Students     Friends of Princeton University Library     Independent Scholar / Outside Researcher     Member of the Public     Princeton Alumni     Princeton Faculty/Researcher     Princeton Staff     Princeton Student     Student Friends of Princeton University Library  
Categories:
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Stanley Corngold is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at Princeton University. His many books include Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic and Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka (both Princeton), and Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle (Bloomsbury). Read more about Professor Corngold

This event is part of the Friends of the Princeton University Library Small Talks Series.

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