Tonio Kröger (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Mann
- First Published: 1903
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The last quarter of the nineteenth century
- Setting: A northern German town resembling Lubeck; Munich, the Bavarian capital; and Aalsgaard, Denmark
- Principal Characters: Tonio Kröger, Hans Hansen, Ingeborg Holm, Magdalena Vermehren, Lisabetta Ivanovna
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Art or artists, Friendship, Writing, Emotions, Boys
- Locales: Germany, Munich, Germany, Bavaria, Denmark
The Story
Schoolboy Tonio Kröger discovers that he deeply admires, indeed loves, his classmate Hans Hansen. The boys are physical and intellectual opposites. Hans is handsome in a Nordic way with steel-blue eyes, straw-colored hair, broad shoulders, and narrow hips, while Tonio has the dark-brown hair, dark eyes, and chiseled features of the south. Hans's walk is strong and athletic, Tonio's idle and uneven. It hurts Tonio that Hans responds to his obvious admiration with easygoing indifference. When Hans is late for their after-school walk and finally appears with other...
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