Thomas Mann

[jbor]

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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.

The homosexuality in _Death in Venice_ is hardly "hidden" or "tricky"! It's
the entire *plot* for goodness' sake.

One or two critics at least have cited Mann as a potential influence on
Pynchon. I distinctly recall one of the standard critical works claiming
that there were similarities between _The Magic Mountain_ and _GR_.

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