Thomas Mann

A 25 year-old Thoman Mann is writing to his older brother Heinrich, congratulating him on his first successful novel, and he laments his own problematic start with his first novel, complaining that his publisher is taking a long time in getting back to him on “Buddenbrooks”.

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“Suppose nobody wants the novel? I think I would become a bank clerk. These fits come over me sometimes.”

-- Thomas Mann (January 1901)

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[Source: Richard and Clara Winston, editors, “Letters of Thoman Mann”]