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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
thomas mann as a representative of exile literature
During World War II, a significant portion of German literature was created in the United States. Bertolt Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle (Der kaukasische Kreidekreis), Carl Zuckmayer's The Devil's General (Des Teufels General), Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil), and Alfred Döblin's Tales of a Long Night (Hamlet oder die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende) were all conceived and partly or entirely written in America. This was also true of the prototypical work of exile literature, Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (Doktor Faustus).
Whereas the work of many exiled authors was never translated into English or was translated only much later, Thomas Mann had achieved fame in the United States beginning with the publication of The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) in 1927. America was “the country with the second most translations after Sweden, and the country with the second most reviews of his work after Germany.” His extended lecture tours, radio addresses, and interviews made him the best known of German writers in exile.
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