| German-born author Thomas Mann, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929, is considered one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century. Mann employed irony and psychological analysis in his narratives, and his heroes often undergo a spiritual conflict. In his best-known work, The Magic Mountain (1924; trans. 1927), Mann analyzed in detail contemporary European civilization. After losing his German citizenship in 1936 for his condemnation of fascism and Nazism, Mann became a United States citizen in 1944. |
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