Tonio Kröger

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Tonio Kröger is a novella by Thomas Mann that explores the inner conflict of an artist torn between bourgeois respectability and bohemian creativity.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf novella
author Thomas Mann
countryOfOrigin Germany
criticalReception considered a key text on the artist figure in Mann's work
explores self-knowledge of the artist
tension between normality and artistic individuality
firstPublicationForm periodical publication
firstPublicationYear 1903
genre bildungsroman
novella
psychological fiction
hasAdaptation radio play adaptation
stage adaptation
television adaptation
hasCharacter Hans Hansen
Ingeborg Holm
hasMotif journey
north–south contrast in Germany
unrequited love
hasStructure framed by protagonist's reflections on his life
includedIn collections of Thomas Mann's novellas
influencedBy German bourgeois culture
languageTitle Tonio Kröger self-link
laterPublicationForm book
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement modernism
literaryPeriod early 20th century literature
literarySignificance important example of early modernist German prose
mainCharacter Tonio Kröger self-link
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage German
partOf Thomas Mann
surface form: Thomas Mann's early works
protagonistBackground bourgeois family
protagonistOccupation writer
setting Lübeck
Munich
targetAudience adult readers
theme alienation
artist as outsider
bourgeois respectability versus bohemian creativity
conflict between art and bourgeois life
identity

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Tonio Kröger languageTitle Tonio Kröger self-link
Tonio Kröger mainCharacter Tonio Kröger self-link
Thomas Mann notableWork Tonio Kröger