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fromThe New Yorker
2 days ago

What Went Wrong When Susan Sontag Met Thomas Mann?

Susan Sontag recalled a disappointing 1947 meeting with Thomas Mann at age fourteen, experiencing profound disillusionment when the literary titan failed to match her idealized expectations of him.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The Master of Contradictions by Morten Hi Jensen review how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain

Morten Hi Jensen's approachable and informative study of The Magic Mountain positions Mann as a writer who was contradictory to his core: an artist who dressed and behaved like a businessman; a homosexual in a conventional marriage with six children; an upstanding burgher obsessed with death and corruption. Very much the kind of man who would send someone a book and tell them not to read it.
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fromwww.dw.com
9 months ago

A voice for democracy: Thomas Mann's lasting literary legacy DW 06/04/2025

Thomas Mann's literary genius intertwined with his political activism, particularly in response to the Nazi regime.
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