Heinrich Mann: Mirror and Antagonist of his time

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 The Fin de siécle and Heinrich Mann

1.1 Conceptual definition and meaning of the Fin de siécle

1.2 Literary aspects and historical environment of the Fin deSiécle

1.2.1 History of literature

1.2.2 Literary criticism at the turn of the century

1.2.3 The understanding of art around 1900

1.2.4 Current affairs

1.3 Heinrich Mann and his position in relation to the Fin de siécle

1.3.1 The position of Heinrich Mann in the contemporaryliterature

1.3.2 Philosophic influences of Friedrich Nietzsche on HeinrichMann

1.3.3 Literary influences from France

1.4 Summary

2 “Im Schlaraffenland” (1900)

2.1 Genesis and plot of the novel

2.1.1 Heinrich Mann’s orientation at the ideal “Bel Ami” (1885)by Guy de Maupassant

2.2 The characters and their network of relationships

2.3 First sociocritical novel and society satire

2.4 Narrative form and stylistic device

2.5 Summary

3 “Professor Unrat oder Das Ende eines Tyrannen”(1905)

3.1 Genesis and textual conception

3.2 Groups of characters in the novel

3.2.1 The relation of power between Unrat and his studentsLohmann, von Erztum and Kieselack

3.2.2 Unrat and the artist Rosa Fröhlich

3.2.3 The picture of Unrat and the provincial population

3.3 Reading of the novel and Heinrich Mann’s development in hissecond satirical social criticism

3.4 Speech

3.5 Summary

4 “Die Kleine Stadt” (1909) – The beginning of HeinrichMann as a political writer

4.1 Genesis

4.2 Synthesis of art and live – the Italian small town and theopera society

4.3 The musical subject – Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

4.4 Heinrich Mann’s “Die Kleine Stadt” (1909) as a democraticnovel

4.5 Summary

5 Final remark and prospect

List of literature