The Master of Contradictions

Thomas Mann and the Making of "The Magic Mountain"

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<p><b>The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote </b><i><b>The Magic Mountain</b></i><b> as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos</b></p><p><b>"Jensen brings to the subject the breadth of knowledge and the critical insight it demands, while maintaining a clear style and quick pace. The combination makes </b><i><b>The Master of Contradictions</b></i><b> the rare work of literary criticism with real appeal for the common reader."-Adam Kirsch, </b><i><b>New York Review of Books</b></i></p><p>Like many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) welcomed the outbreak of the First World War. He viewed it as a spiritual necessity, a chance to reassert German cultural dominance over Western ideas of democracy and enlightenment. Then, in 1924, he published <i>The Magic Mountain</i>, a massive novel that culminates in the slaughter of war and foreshadows the Nazi terror to come. One of the central achievements of modernism, <i>The Magic Mountain</i> bears testimony to its author's dramatic political reorientation as a defender of democracy.<br> <br>This poignant book is a biography of Mann's great novel-its evolution from a short story into a two-volume masterpiece and one of the bestselling novels of the Weimar era. Deftly weaving together elements of biography, history, and literary criticism, Morten Høi Jensen reveals how writing <i>The Magic Mountain</i> against a backdrop of world war, revolution, hyperinflation, and rising right-wing terror moved Mann to embrace the democratic and humanistic ideas he once scorned.<br> <br>One hundred years after <i>The Magic Mountain</i> was first published, at a time when democratic ideas are again under threat, Jensen reveals the universality and timeliness of Mann's great novel-its still-resonant debates over democracy and tyranny, time and place, illness and death.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780300233742

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

218 x 145 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Yale University Press