Thomas Mann

[Dave Monroe]

>From John Dugdale, Thomas Pynchon: Allusive Parables
of Power (London: Macmillan, 1990; New York: St
Martins, 1990), Ch. 2, "V.," pp. 76-123 ...

"... Chapter 9 [of V., "Mondaugen's Story"] is the
prototype for the extraordinary evocation of the
Weimar era in GR ....  The principal literary echoes
are of Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain] (1924) (the
engineer arriving at an enclosed community of the
sick, and becoming sexually bewitched) and Der
Steppenwolf (1927) (two women, the assimilation of teh
studious hero into decadence), with Hesse's carnival
scene a point of overlap with Poe ["The Masque of the
Red Death"]." (p. 92)

Reminds me, must ... utilize ... Dugdale ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> 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_.
> 
> best
> 

But love Pynchon, love his (admitted or otherwise)
influences?  I'm still trying to get around to
reconciling myself with Jack Kerouac's On the Road ...

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