Mann in his youth. Photo from the New York Public Library Archives/Wikipedia
Arguably one of last century’s greatest authors, Nobel laureate Thomas Mann might seem, at first, extremely rooted in the culture of his native Germany. Books like “Death in Venice” and “Doctor Faust”, offer a deep, and frequently critical analysis of the German soul.
What few know is that Mann’s mother, Júlia da Silva Bruhn, was born in the historical city of Paraty, in the coast of Rio, daughter of German and...
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