Tobias Boes is Professor of German and Chair of the Department of German, Slavic, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His latest book, A Reader’s Guide to Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus” will be published by Camden House in June and will also be available as a free ebook.
Tobias Boes
Contributions
Thomas Mann, “Bilse and I” (1906): A Critical Introduction
In October of 1905, a defamation trial that would have a lasting impact on the development of literary modernism took place in the sleepy German harbor town of Lübeck. A lawyer with the slightly preposterous name “Ritter aus Tondern” was suing his cousin, the regionalist writer Johannes Valentin Dose, claiming that Dose had maliciously portrayed him as an alcoholic and an adulterer in the 1904 novel The Milksop (Der Muttersohn)
Thomas Mann, “Bilse and I” (1906)
Translated by Tobias Boes.
Read his critical introduction here.