{"id":4412,"date":"2004-07-02T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2026-02-07T21:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:56:33","slug":"tonio-kroeger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4412","title":{"rendered":"Tonio Kroeger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0826409717\/qid=1100824807\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-6885291-4747149?v=glance&#038;s=books\" class=\"content-image-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Tonio_Kroger-100x150.gif\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This autobiographical short piece of fiction is the best writing of Thomas Mann that I have laid eyes on. For me it was much more compelling than his famous first major novel <i>The Buddenbrocks<\/i>. At least one German writer (Martin Walser) claims to have learned the entire novella by heart so that he could readily draw upon it as a role model for his own writing. I suspect there are many more.\u00a0 I have just reread <i>Tonio Kroeger<\/i> and once again found that Thomas Mann\u2019s ability to describe human emotions is breathtaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This autobiographical short piece of fiction is the best writing of Thomas Mann that I have laid eyes on. For me it was much more <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4412\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Tonio_Kroger.gif\" alt=\"image\" width=\"100\" height=\"157\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5293,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions\/5293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}