Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of
twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the
German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete
edition of their correspondence provides a glimpse inside their private
and public lives and culminates in the famous dispute over Mann's novel
Doctor Faustus. In the thick of the controversy was Theodor Adorno,
then a budding philosopher, whose contribution to the Faustus affair
would make him an enemy of both families. Gathered here for the first
time in English, the letters in this essential volume are complemented
by diary entries, related articles, and other primary source materials,
as well as an introduction by German studies scholar Adrian Daub that
contextualizes the impact these two great artists had on
twentieth-century thought and culture.