Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann’s comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the author of Mephisto, the literary enfant terrible of the Weimar era produced seven novels, a dozen plays, four biographies, and three autobiographies—among them the first works in Germany to tackle gay issues—amidst a prodigious art...

The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation’s artists and intellectuals. Some were able to flee the country; those who remained—including Gide and Céline, Picasso and Matisse, Cortot and Messiaen, and Cocteau and Gabin—responded in various ways. This fascinating book is the first to provide a full account of how France’s artistic leaders coped under the crushing German presence. Some became heroes, others villains; most were simply surviv...

Hitler y el poder de la estética es un libro extraordinario cuya idea central es la importancia de la estética en la ideología de Adolf Hitler. Como señala su autor, la política nazi estuvo condicionada en una buena medida por el gusto artístico del dictador. Jamás en la historia se había dado hasta 1933 el dominio absoluto de un hombre que llevaba en su carácter una mezcla de sensibilidad artística y de impulso criminal. Apasionado por la música alemana del siglo xix, con Wagner como ídol...