Tonio Kröger
E51130
Tonio Kröger is a novella by Thomas Mann that explores the inner conflict of an artist torn between bourgeois respectability and bohemian creativity.
Statements (42)
| 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 → |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.