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Tonio Kröger [Erstausgabe: Illustrationen von Erich M. Simon]
by Mann, Thomas
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Creators: Thomas Mann (1875-1955) and Erich M. Simon (1892-) [Illustrator] "Tonio Kröger" by Thomas Mann is a novella written in 1901. It traces a writer's journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the painful divide between artistic sensitivity and bourgeois life. Born to a German merchant father and artistic mother, Tonio feels both superior to and envious of those around him. As he matures into a famous writer, he grapples with a haunting question: must the artist remain forever an outsider to respectable society? A journey to his northern hometown forces him to confront this tension between art and life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading Level: Reading ease score: 77.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Rights: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 749