Little Herr Friedemann and Other Stories

Little Herr Friedemann and Other Stories is a selection of work by Thomas Mann Taken from Stories of a Lifetime. 'Little Herr Friedemann' is characteristic of Mann.s deep imward affinity to 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 an autobiography in the guise of fiction.