Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.
Berthold Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Living in Munich during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes with theatre plays, whose themes were often influenced by his Marxist thought.
Modernism
The new values, referred to as modernism, were at the core of the youth movement and challenged the old, anti-modern, values of the generation before them.
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque was a 20th Century German novelist. His landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front, about the German military experience of World War 1, was an international best-seller which created a new literary genre, and was subsequently made into the cinema film All Quiet on the Western Front.
"Disorder and the early sorrow"
Disorder and Early Sorrow is a 1925 novella written by Thomas Mann. It follows the fortunes of the Cornelius family through the perspective of Abel Cornelius, a 47-year-old professor at the local university, whose status in society was once highly respected but has diminished markedly.
All Quiet on the western front
Description
All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
The Hireling Shepherd
This is a painting by William Holman Hunt, a leading British Pre-Raphaelite.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
