M is for...Mann, Mitchell, and Marquez
Happy Tuesday, fellow A-Zers. It's a glorious day here in the Pacific Northwest (we've been experiencing abnormally nice weather for this time of year) and we're exactly halfway through with this years challenge...whoa! Today I'm bringing you the following M writers: Thomas Mann, Margaret Mitchell, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) The first time I read something by Thomas Mann I was hooked. It was a novella, so a quick read, and disturbing in so many ways. But this one story has stuck with me so much so that when I was in Italy, where the novella is set, I purposely went to the island of Lido because of it. A German novelist, short story writer, social critic, essayist, and Nobel Laureate in 1929, Mann's work is highly symbolic and noted for its views on the intellectual and the psychology of the artist. He was also adept at incorporating ideas from philosophers, such as Goethe , Nietzsche , and Schopenhauer . ...