What can we still learn from the The Magic Mountain? Susan Bernofsky Hans Castorp, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic ...
One of the lingering mysteries about the German writer Thomas Mann is how there could have been any lingering mystery about his repressed –make that sublimated– sexual desire for beautiful young men.
A Nobel prize laureate, literary exile and conscience of a nation in the wake of Nazi rule, Thomas Mann remains a cultural icon 150 years since his birth.One of the greatest writers of the 20th ...