A more serious novel by this author concludes with the protagonist inviting his friends to see his "Lamentation," only for him to give a public confession about its composition before collapsing on the floor.
One cheerful novel by this man is set in a polity whose leader receives a prophecy from a gypsy that his duchy will be saved from destruction by a one-armed man; that turns out to be his son Klaus Heinrich, who marries the rich socialite Imma Spoelman. A more serious novel by this author concludes with the protagonist inviting his friends to see his "Lamentation," only for him to give a public confession about its composition before collapsing on the floor. That character then spends the last ten years of his life in a (*) syphilis-induced insanity. That novel focuses on a character who received lessons from Wendell Kretschmar and probably killed his sister's child Nepomuk by loving him. This author of Royal Highness also created a character that eats some overripe strawberries, which induces his death while watching Tadzio and Jasiu wrestle. For 10 points, name this author of Doctor Faustus and Death in Venice.
One cheerful novel by this man is set in a polity whose leader receives a prophecy from a gypsy that his duchy will be saved from destruction by a one-armed man; that turns out to be his son Klaus Heinrich, who marries the rich socialite Imma Spoelman.
Thomas Mann