Tonio Kröger

Blackwell's German Texts. 12mo. Pp. xlvi, 82. Printed card covers. English notes, vocabulary and introduction.

Modest wear on spine. Minimally rubbed to edges. Former owner's name on flyleaf.

Autobiographical novel originally published by S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, in 1903. Forming a pair with its more famous sibling Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig, 1912), the story examines the life of an artist as an outsider relative to "respectable" society. While in the former the artist travels from north to south to meet his death, in Tonio Kröger the trajectory of the journey is reversed, ending in a tenuous reconciliation. The novella was filmed in 1964, under the direction of Rolf Thiele. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. [Text in German].

[Bürgin I.9d]