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Volume offering a guide to and reassessment of Thomas Mann's famous
novel. Thomas Mann was the first writer since Goethe to attract a
large international audience to stories written in German, bringing
German fiction into the mainstream of European literature. His
second major work, The Magic Mountain (1924), explores the heady
intellectual culture of the chaotic and broken Germany that emerged
from the First World War, and, along with the earlier Buddenbrooks,
earned him a Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. Mann himself
considered The Magic Mountain to be his greatest novel, and few in
his own day doubted the preeminence of this modernist classic;
however, many have argued that the age of literary modernism has
passed. If this is so, how might we best understand Mann's
masterpiece now? Topics covered in this volume, which aims to
provide both a survey of and new research into important aspects of
the work, include Mann's comic vision, his homosexuality, his
fraught attitude toward Jews, the place of his novel in the
landscape of postmodern life, the theme of solitude, music in the
novel, and technology. Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German at
Brandeis University. Contributors: David Blumberg, Michael Brenner,
Stephen Dowden, Edward Engelberg, Ulker Goekberk, Eugene Goodheart,
Joseph P. Lawrence, Karla Schultz, Susan Sontag, Kenneth Weisinger.
Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German at Brandeis University.
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