"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates."
About Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was a German novelist and essayist renowned for works such as 'Buddenbrooks' and 'Death in Venice', and he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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