Feminist and Gender Studies in the Selected novels of Thomas Mann

Abstract

Thomas Mann was born on June 6, 1875 in Lubeck was the best known German writer of the early twentieth century. Thomas Mann was famous from the time he published his first novel in 1901. Mann’s cultivated manners and elegant clothing betrayed his patrician origins, and he wrote with the stylistic virtuosity of a nineteenth century realist, but his works captured the anxious spirit of modern times, full as they were of gender confusion, artistic crisis, physical decline, and moral decay. He was well known in literary circles and popular among general readers, but he was not yet the iconic figure that became known as the living embodiment of German national culture. His novels are based on the Gender studies as Homosexuality, sexuality etc. In Mann’s novel he doesn’t emphasizes on the female character. In his major works the male protagonist is only a centre figure. Thomas Mann himself was passionately attracted to young men through out of his life, same he shows in his novels. Though Thomas Mann was a married man and he have six children’s. Thomas Mann reveals that while he was writing some of his novels he was preoccupied by questions of sexuality in modern society and the status of his own masculinity. During this period the sixth and the last of Mann’s children was born, and on more than one occasion the successful author and respectable Pater families professes his love for his wife, Katia, and his gratitude for her support and understanding.