Matthew d’Ancona’s culture: Why Thomas Mann is the writer we need right now
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Why is Thomas Mann so comparatively neglected in the English-speaking world today? True, some still read Death in Venice (1912), usually after seeing Luchino Visconti’s 1971 movie adaptation; others have been encouraged by Colm Tóibín’s wonderful epic novel The Magician (2021) to try Buddenbrooks (1901) or The Magic Mountain (1924).
Yet, compared to, say, Dostoevsky, Kafka, or Camus, Mann is among those great masters who still have canonical s
Fatherland (selected cinemas)
Why is Thomas Mann so comparatively neglected in the English-speaking world today? True, some still read Death in Venice (1912), usually after seeing Luchino Visconti’s 1971 movie adaptation; others have been encouraged by Colm Tóibín’s wonderful epic novel The Magician (2021) to try Buddenbrooks (1901) or The Magic Mountain (1924).
Yet, compared to, say, Dostoevsky, Kafka, or Camus, Mann is among those great masters who still have canonical s
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