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Morten Høi Jensen, "The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of "The Magic Mountain""
English | ISBN: 0300233744 | 2025 | 248 pages | PDF | 1197 KB
The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos
"A lavish work of historical analysis that doubles as a kind of psychological thriller. Mann's magnum opus is not just a novel, Jensen suggests, but a thinly veiled spiritual autobiography."―Anna Ballan, New Criterion
Like 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,
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