This is a German novel written in 1936 and published in exile. Klaus Mann was the son of Thomas Mann, and he wrote this with a brother in law in mind, an actor who rejected his Communist leanings to cozen up Nazis when they first gained power. When there was an attempt to publish this in West Germany, there was a lengthy court battle because of the accusatory nature of the novel. That always seems weird to me, given people all over the world could […]