Alexander: A Novel of Utopia
By Klaus Mann and Jean Cocteau
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Klaus Mann
Klaus Mann (1906-1949) wrked as a theatre critic and wrote prolifically, publishing novels, collections of short stories and plays. The son of Thomas Mann, he is also regarded as one of the greatest German writers of the twentieth century. Persecuted for his homosexuality, he was - unlike his father- an opponent of Nazism from the beginning, fleeing Germany in 1933 and being stripped of his citizenship a year later. His most famous work, Mephisto, was published in 1936 and, like Alexander, is a searing indictment of a corrupt society. Mann died from an overdose of sleeping pills in 1949.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As you would expect, Klaus Mann's Alexander covers roughly the same ground as all the other Alexander novels out there, but the emphasis is rather different. The great battles and epic marches are barely footnotes in this story: everything is about the struggle for Alexander's soul between, on the good side: Aristotle's Hellenic (read: Germanic) rationalism and healthy outdoor activity in the nude; on the bad side: Philip's macho ranting, Olympias and the cult of the Mother Goddess, and perfumed Persian sophistication in baggy trousers. Lovely writing, but there's something rather disturbing about seeing someone you're used to thinking of as a political opponent of the Nazis going into ecstasies about the Macedonians' short skirts and hard, sunburned bodies...