Tschichold loosely based his design on types from the 1592 specimen sheet issued by the Egenolff-Berner foundry: a 14-point roman attributed to Claude Garamond, and an italic attributed to Robert Granjon. The typeface is named after the sixteenth century typefounder, Jacques Sabon, a student of the great French punchcutter Claude Garamond. Sabon was designed by Jan Tschichold in 1964. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior consent of the publishers.īook design and typesetting © Actuel Editions This edition first published in 2020 © Actuel Editions Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur, German literature written in exile by those who opposed the Hitler regime.

He revisited his native country in 1949 and returned to Switzerland in 1952, where The Black Swan and Confessions of Felix Krull were written and where he died in 1955. Among the honours he received in the US was his appointment as a Fellow of the Library of Congress. Then, after several previous visits, in 1938 he settled in the United States, where he wrote Doctor Faustus and The Holy Sinner. When Adolf Hitler came to power, Mann fled to Switzerland. His second great novel, The Magic Mountain, was published in 1924 and the first volume of his tetralogy Joseph and his Brothers in 1933. Before it was banned and burned by Hitler, it had sold over a million copies in Germany alone. He was only twenty-five when Buddenbrooks, his first major novel, was published in 1901. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. Thomas Mann (1875–1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

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