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Thomas Mann’s Pessimistic Humanism
What can we still learn from the The Magic Mountain? Susan Bernofsky Hans Castorp, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic ...
Thomas Mann published “The Magic Mountain” a century ago, in November 1924, and five years later won the Nobel Prize. One of the greatest novels ever written, it is an intellectual feast with an ...
The rooms are comfortable, the view is magnificent, the food delicious. Wrapped in wool blankets, the well-heeled guests of a sanatorium spend their days resting on the balconies. Welcome to the ...
On The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of “The Magic Mountain,” by Morten Høi Jensen. Can politics and aesthetics be pried apart? Can an infatuation with death be redirected ...
Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney This month, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain turns 100. One of the 20th century’s towering literary ...
This talk will show how Thomas Mann's landmark German modernist novel "Der Zauberberg" ("The Magic Mountain", 1924) has developed something of a cult following among non-academic readers around the ...
I was reading Thomas Mann’s masterpiece, The Magic Mountain, when I suddenly realized that it is almost eerily relevant to our current pandemic. As time goes on, writers will inevitably provide us and ...
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