/lit/ - Literature

Last bump before going to bed.

The Netlix adaptation adapts all the worst part, all the one-sidedness of the book while adding nothing new and even removing the few parts that had opportunity to make it good, namely the boot camp and Bäumer's leave to visit his sick mother and sick home town. It's better or at least different from US war movies/shows like Top Gun or Generation Kill in that it doesn't tell you to enlist, that's because it's made by Germans and hence you get flagellation instead. It's still war porn, but on the other side of the spectrum, it's a spectacle and litany of suffering, and if the thread is up by the time I wake I will expand on this point.

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Anons the local Thomas Mann society here is celebrating its 10 year anniversary, I have a half-baked idea to write a short, spicy commentary and criticism based on Nabokov's opinion on the guy and/or the Germans. Specifically I'm vaguely remembering a quote on Thomas Mann with off-hand mention of Theodor Dreiser/Sister Carrie (I think), pretty sure the legend called Mann a giant cliché, possibly with reference to Joseph and His Brothers.
Does anyone know the quote or am I crazy? Having shit luck finding it. In fact I'd be grateful for any spicy quotes you might know from Nabokov on Mann (with a source I can quote, thanks).