/lit/ - Literature

>Hmm, I need a name for this young man's love interest...
>...
>Aha, of course! Madame Hotpussy!

I'm starting the book, looks pretty big and dense but I'm excited for it, what are your thoughts?

should I read his books? what is his best work?

>Falls in love with his pre-pubescent son and writes about it in his diary
>Grooms his own son and molests him
>encourages his sons to mutually masturbate together
>Writes a 100% story about falling in love with an 11 year old boy
>Literally nobody seems to point out how he was a literal incestual peado and instead focus on the fact he also fucked grown men
Listened to the Death in Venice episode on In Our Time and was just fucking shocked at how not even Melvyn would go "hang on this was a grown man in love with a little boy". How has he escaped the peado spotlight that Nabokov seems to be constantly thrown under?

>wants to have sex with a 14 year old boy
>writes a novella about it

WTF was his problem?

>Noooooo Hitler is destroying Germany therefore America must help the Soviets destroy Germany
What was his problem?

Why is every single German writer secretly a pedo/homosexual /lit?

>Gilbert Adair's work The Real Tadzio (2001) describes how, in the summer of 1911, Mann had stayed at the Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido of Venice with his wife and brother, when he became enraptured by the angelic figure of Władysław (Władzio) Moes, a 10-year-old Polish boy (the real Tadzio). Mann's diary records his attraction to his own 13-year-old son, "Eissi" – Klaus Mann: "Klaus to whom recently I feel very drawn" (22 June). In the background conversations about man-to-man eroticism take place; a long letter is written to Carl Maria Weber on this topic, while the diary reveals: "In love with Klaus during these days" (5 June). "Eissi, who enchants me right now" (11 July). "Delight over Eissi, who in his bath is terribly handsome. Find it very natural that I am in love with my son ... Eissi lay reading in bed with his brown torso naked, which disconcerted me" (25 July). "I heard noise in the boys' room and surprised Eissi completely naked in front of Golo's bed acting foolish. Strong impression of his premasculine, gleaming body. Disquiet" (17 October 1920).

>gay pedophile who wanted to fuck his own son
>gets away with it because his books are just that good

Where to start with this guy: The Magic Mountain or The Buddenbrooks?

>wrote death in venice after a boy he saw once
>in his diaries he talks about how much he "loves" one of his sons
>also about how he lusted after several men below his age and even dated one of them
>half of his children were gay
that's cap frfr

>Thomas Mann said of Wagner's works "the most problematic in the history of art, open to criticism to the highest degree, yet ultimately impossible to criticise inasmuch as they are European phenomenon of the most tremendous kind."

>Kant
>Heidegger
>Mann

All the poets. Etc.

>I want to rape my children
Wow………what a deep author.

>>19793773
>blocks your path

The greatest novelists of the 20th century are Proust, Mann, Gadda, Musil, Broch, Rebatet, Joyce, and Powys. No, I will not be taking any questions.

>>19043687
i miss this little nigga like you wouldn't believe

Have any German second language speakers read Mann? I'm a B2 level German and was hoping to read something in German that isn't children's book (seriously I've been reading children's books to practice).
Is the Magic Mountain feasible for someone at this level? I've never had a problem with reading translations, but it does feel a bit "less", knowing that it is not the author's real words.

Are there any glaring issues with the Porter translations of his work?

Is buddenbrooks the place to start with Mann? I’ve heard this a few times but wanted to get other opinions

>Thomas Mann
>Is a man
Nominative determinism proved

Ladies and gentleman, if I could please have the honor of presenting to you, our next illustrious guest: Thomas Man

>Mann's diary records his attraction to his own 13-year-old son, "Eissi" – Klaus Mann: "Klaus to whom recently I feel very drawn".

>In the background conversations about man-to-man eroticism take place; a long letter is written to Carl Maria Weber on this topic, while the diary reveals: "In love with Klaus during these days".

>"Eissi, who enchants me right now"

>"Delight over Eissi, who in his bath is terribly handsome. Find it very natural that I am in love with my son ... Eissi lay reading in bed with his brown torso naked, which disconcerted me"

>"I heard noise in the boys' room and surprised Eissi completely naked in front of Golo's bed acting foolish. Strong impression of his premasculine, gleaming body. Disquiet"

Jesus christ Thomas

Thomas Mann