He revisited his native country in 1949 and returned to Switzerland in 1952, where The Black Swan and Confessions of Felix Krull were written and where he died in 1955. Among the honours he received in the US was his appointment as a Fellow of the Library of Congress. Then, after several previous visits, in 1938 he settled in the United States, where he wrote Doctor Faustus and The Holy Sinner. When Adolf Hitler came to power, Mann fled to Switzerland. His second great novel, The Magic Mountain, was published in 1924 and the first volume of his tetralogy Joseph and his Brothers in 1933. Before it was banned and burned by Hitler, it had sold over a million copies in Germany alone. He was only twenty-five when Buddenbrooks, his first major novel, was published in 1901. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. Thomas Mann (1875–1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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