Volume 29, Number 19 · December 2, 1982
Mein liebes Tagebuch,
By Gordon A. Craig
Thomas Mann: Diaries 1918-1939
selection and foreword by Hermann Kesten, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
Abrams, 471 pp., $29.95 after January 1
From the time he was a schoolboy in Lübeck until his death in Zurich in 1955, Thomas Mann kept a diary. Its purpose in the early years seems to have been to serve as a repository for stylistic exercises, drafts of stories, and copies of letters, but we have no exact knowledge of its contents because he burned all of the early volumes in 1896. He wrote to a friend,
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