The Master of Contradictions – Thomas Mann and the Making of "The Magic Mountain"

The Master of Contradictions – Thomas Mann and the Making of "The Magic Mountain"

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The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos“Jensen brings to the subject the breadth of knowledge and the critical insight it demands, while maintaining a clear style and quick pace. The combination makes The Master of Contradictions the rare work of literary criticism… Přejít na celý popis

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The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos“Jensen brings to the subject the breadth of knowledge and the critical insight it demands, while maintaining a clear style and quick pace. The combination makes The Master of Contradictions the rare work of literary criticism with real appeal for the common reader.”—Adam Kirsch, New York Review of BooksLike many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875–1955) welcomed the outbreak of the First World War. He viewed it as a spiritual necessity, a chance to reassert German cultural dominance over Western ideas of democracy and enlightenment. Then, in 1924, he published The Magic Mountain, a massive novel that culminates in the slaughter of war and foreshadows the Nazi terror to come. One of the central achievements of modernism, The Magic Mountain bears testimony to its author’s dramatic political reorientation as a defender of democracy.  This poignant book is a biography of Mann’s great novel—its evolution from a short story into a two-volume masterpiece and one of the bestselling novels of the Weimar era. Deftly weaving together elements of biography, history, and literary criticism, Morten Høi Jensen reveals how writing The Magic Mountain against a backdrop of world war, revolution, hyperinflation, and rising right-wing terror moved Mann to embrace the democratic and humanistic ideas he once scorned.  One hundred years after The Magic Mountain was first published, at a time when democratic ideas are again under threat, Jensen reveals the universality and timeliness of Mann’s great novel—its still-resonant debates over democracy and tyranny, time and place, illness and death.

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Yale University Press
Rozměr
149 x 223 x 23
jazyk
angličtina
Vazba
pevná vazba
Hmotnost
392 g
isbn
978-0-300-23374-2
Počet stran
248
datum vydání
21.10.2025
ean
9780300233742

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