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Anonymous Sat May 22 18:12:22 2021 No.18297524 [Reply] [Original]

Paul Thomas Mann, the most important german prose writer of the twentieth century.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 22 18:27:22 2021 No.18297614 >>18297524 No.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 22 18:33:18 2021 No.18297649 >>18297524 Death in Venice is on my reading list. Magic Mountain has almost made it onto my list several times by recommendation, but its synopsis doesn't sound very intriguing to me. Thoughts?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 22 18:33:52 2021 No.18297651 >>18297649 Magic Mountain is his worst book.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 22 19:17:37 2021 No.18297887 >>18297649 Doktor Faustus is better

>>	Anonymous Sat May 22 19:25:52 2021 No.18297917 >>18297649 Its good if you know a little about pre WW1 Yuro geopolitics. It's definitely a German doorstopper though. That and Wilhelm Miesters Apprenticeship are basically the first 2 coming of age books so interesting in a literary history read.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 22 19:30:26 2021 No.18297933 Is Mann just a bluepilled gay pedophile version of Hamsun? I'm asking because I've never read him but read copious amounts of Hamsun.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 22 19:56:58 2021 No.18298031 >>18297524 boring

>>	Anonymous Sat May 22 19:59:30 2021 No.18298041 >>18297524 He liked boys

>>	Anonymous Sat May 22 20:03:52 2021 No.18298062 >>18297649 Magic Mountain has been my favorite experience with Mann. I read it over winter break and it was supremely comfy. The characters are gorgeous. >>18297933 They are completely different authors. Those are just brainrot buzzwords.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 22 20:05:38 2021 No.18298078 When reading The Magic Mountain I innocently thought I'm reading about love but it turned out it was his lust or rather perversions, not a pleasent surprise. The book is more than that one plot though.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 22 20:45:35 2021 No.18298323 >>18298041 >fags can't write

>>	Anonymous Sat May 22 23:22:09 2021 No.18299129 Shameless bump

>>	Anonymous Sun May 23 02:04:04 2021 No.18299844 >>18297933 not really

>>	Anonymous Sun May 23 02:11:53 2021 No.18299876 >>18297614 Who else then?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 23 02:36:35 2021 No.18299969 >>18297524 >the most important german prose writer of the twentieth century. Is he really though? In any event, I don't rank him too highly.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 23 06:16:44 2021 No.18300531 >>18297524 No, that would be Heinrich von Kleist.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 23 06:18:50 2021 No.18300536 File: 56 KB, 474x674, Kleist.png.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18300531 forgot picrel

>>	Anonymous Sun May 23 06:48:08 2021 No.18300604 >>18299876 Musil. Not even close.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 23 07:49:33 2021 No.18300851 >>18300531 Ah, yes, that 20th-century writer Kleist