Book description
Little Her Friedemann is characteristic of Mann’s deep inward affinity with music and his concern for the artist’s isolation and equivocal position in a harsh world of reality, and this theme is also seen in The Infant Prodigy. The isolation motif is maintained in The Fight Between Jappe and Do Escobar but developed to pursue individuals at extremes of their condition.
Mann himself considered every piece of work a complete realization of one’s own nature, the "stones on that harsh road which we must walk to learn of ourselves." These stories realize Mann’s nature and create au autobiography in the guise of fiction.
