MANN THOMAS (1875-1955). Écrivain allemand.

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MANN THOMAS (1875-1955). Écrivain allemand.
Signed autograph letter, signed « Thomas Mann », Pacifi c Palisades 12 August 1943, to M. FRANKENTHAL; 1 page and a half, in-8 format, blue ink; in German. Letter to a Mr. Frankenthal who had sent him “his small philosophical suite ‘On the 2 principles’” [“Von den 2 Prinzipien”]. Thomas Mann acknowledges Frankenthal’s work, and especially his mentioning of musical repetition as the “second principle”, but he fears that his little masonic opera is as “un-American as possible” and “has to be stored in the drawer until Europe is again open to our meditations…”.
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