Thomas Mann

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I can only agree with the descriptions of Thomas and Otto. Reading Thomas 
Mann is frustrating. I tried to read the "Zauberberg" (Magic Mountain),Dr. 
Faustus and Death in Venice, but during the act of reading Mann you are very 
quickly "exhausted".  You can make a sport out of it, f. e. you are looking 
for hidden homoerotic allusions or something like that, but all this tricky 
things don't help in the long run. 

Kurt-Werner Pörtner