托马斯·曼是19世纪末至20世纪上半叶德国现实主义文学最杰出的代表作家,1929年度诺贝尔文学奖获得者。他出生于德国北部商业城市卢卑克的一个富商家庭,禀承了母亲的具有葡萄牙血统的南欧人特有的热情、敏感与喜好幻想的天性,和具有日尔曼血统的身为典型北欧人的的父亲之矜持严 Thomas Mann is the most outstanding representative writer of German realistic literature from the late 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, the winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born into a wealthy business family in the German commercial city of Luxemburg, he inherited the mother’s passionate southern European identity, sensitivity and fantasy, and the typical Nordic with its Germans Father’s strictness