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At school, Tonio is skeptical of teachers. He doesn’t like their hypocrisy and he thinks that they know a lot less than they pretend to. Because of this, Tonio stops going to school and gets poor grades in all his classes. The school alerts his parents to his poor attendance record, and the Consul disciplines Tonio severely.
Tonio likes the unusual combination, “Tonio Kröger.” Tonio’s extraordinary sensitivity causes him to feel things more deeply than most boys. Indeed, his ability to recognize sham and...
Aug 15, 2024 · Tonio Krbger is little different from many of Thomas Mann's heroes who are burdened by a sense of guilt which inhibits them from total involvement in an active life. His sense of sin and...
Tonio Kröger, novella by Thomas Mann, originally published in German in 1903. The partially autobiographical work explores the problem of the artist who, in his devotion to his craft, confronts the antithesis of spirit and life.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The Young Tonio
- Tonio’s Conflict; The “Lost Burgher”
- Arrest at Home and Resolution in Denmark
- Tonio in Context
The novella begins with a fourteen-year-old Tonio and his relationship with Hans Hansen, a friend who is almost completely Tonio’s opposite. Hans is blond, athletically built, and blue-eyed; Tonio is described as dark, with a “southern face.”The interests of the two boys differ as well. Tonio writes poems, whereas Hans has absolutely no interest in...
The next episode of Tonio Kröger’s life takes place when he is just over thirty and having some trouble with writing because of the nice spring weather. Beginning with Tonio’s anecdote of running into a fellow writer who says “God damn the spring!” because he is unable to write, “harassed by a swarm of inappropriate sensations” (185), Tonio and a p...
Tonio’s trip home turns out to be a strange one. He walks about, unrecognized, facing many of his old fears from childhood. He eventually comes upon his childhood home, which has, very significantly, become a public library. Just as he believes literature has replaced his life, so too have books literally filled the inside of his house, replacing a...
Tonio’s final reconciliation represents a tendency of Mann himself; indeed, Tonio Kröger expresses much of Mann’s own ideas about his art. The very fact that the story (like so many of Mann’s stories) contains autobiographical elements, in this story represented by Tonio’s heritage and life trajectory in Tonio Kröger, shows that he also stands betw...
Tonio Kröger (German: [ˈtoːni̯o ˈkʁøːɡɐ] ⓘ) is a novella by Thomas Mann, written early in 1901, when he was 25. It was first published in 1903. A. A. Knopf in New York published the first American edition in 1936, translated by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter. [1]
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Nov 21, 2014 · Tonio Kröger is considered one of Thomas Mann's masterpieces, but only a few elements spoke to me, most of it infuriated me. The writing is stellar, as usual, and the way he described Lübeck - the narrow alleys and gabled roofs - made me want to travel there, but the idea of the artist as….
