TONIO KROGER

Tonio Kroger by Thomas Mann



Tonio Kroger by Thomas Mann

Introduction

Tonio Kroger is a short novel by Thomas Mann published in 1903. This is the story of Tonio, a boy from the German bourgeoisie, who questioned himself as a teenager fascinated by melancholy and two comrades as a writer crippled with doubt about his art. This is my favorite novel, and it addresses the alienation of the artist whose sublime inner world does not fit the prose that surrounds them. In Mann's view, Tonio Kroger can be described as "outside". In this essay, I present my analysis of how Kroger represents ...