More Politics, More FictionTo the Editor:Your appealingly conceived Sept. 13 feature on political novels might disappoint some readers for ultimately confining itself to so few of the great political novels of the last 100 years. Mann committed suicide in 1949. A rehabilitated Gründgens resumed his career in postwar Germany. I recall seeing him as a teenager perform Friedrich Schiller’s “Don Carlos” in the early 1960s in Hamburg’s Deutsches Schauspielhaus, where he served as director. And of course Mann’s novel inspired Istvan Szabo’s brilliant film adaptation in 1981 of “Mephisto.”

Source: New York Times September 25, 2020 09:00 UTC