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The Blood of the Walsungs (Wälsungenblut in German) is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann. Originally written in 1905 and set to be published in the January 1906 issue of Die Neue Rundschau, it was pulled from print because of its similarities to Mann's new wife and her family.
- Thomas Mann
- German
- Germany
- Helen Tracey Lowe-Porter
Mann's attitude toward the Jews is primarily hostile in the controversial novella Wälsungenblut (The Blood of the Walsungs), in which he projects anti-Semitic stereotypes onto distorted images of his wife and new in-laws.
- Todd Kontje
- 2008
THE BLOOD OF THE WALSUNGS. It was seven minutes to twelve. Wendelin came into the firstfloor entrance-hall and sounded the gong. He straddled in his violet knee-breeches on a prayer-rug pale with age and belaboured with his drumstick the metal disk.
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The Blood of the Walsungs is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann. Originally written in 1905 and set to be published in the January 1906 issue of Die Neue Rundschau, it was pulled from print because of its similarities to Mann's new wife and her family.
- Thomas Mann
- German
- Germany
- Helen Tracey Lowe-Porter
Jan 25, 2022 · The blood of the Walsungs : selected poems. by. Orbán, Ottó. Publication date. 1993. Publisher. Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe ; Budapest : Corvina ; Chester Springs, PA : U.S. Distributor, Dufour Editions. Collection.
Christina von Braun has traced an intriguing reversal in the meaning of the word Blutschande over the course of the nineteenth century.1 While the ultimate disgrace to the blood originally referred to incest, i.e., to sexual relations between kin deemed too close, it had been transformed by the twentieth century into a shameful exogamy, a ...
Sep 15, 2012 · As in his story disorder and early sorrow Thomas Mann in The Blood of the Walsungs creates in a few deft strokes an extremely narcissistic and insular bourgeois pseudo-artistic German family - in this case consisting of a domineering father devoted to his rare books and boastful about how he made his fortune in coal , a feckless and ...
