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22690542 No.22690542 [Reply] [Original]

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

>> No.22690549

>>22690542
Buddenbrooks, Magic Mountain, and Joseph & His Brothers

>> No.22690561

He Rapes His Son, Klaus

>> No.22690564

Depends what you are into. If you are right-wing and crotchety about society collapsing, read Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen, which has recently received a new English translation. If you like that, read Gedanken im Kriege. If you like melancholy and dreamlike but long masterworks, read Magic Mountain. If you want commentary by an aristocratic apolitical old-school European high bourgeois classical liberal on Europe's conversion to extremism, read Dr. Faustus. If you just plain like reading literature, read Death in Venice and/or Buddenbrooks and his earlier stuff generally.

>> No.22690589

>>22690542
>Thomas Mann was 26 when he published Buddenbrooks
What's your excuse /lit/?

>25 year old Mann summoned the most important publisher of his time, Samuel Fischer, and gave him his first novel, a manuscript of hundreds of pages, and told him to publish it.
>Mann's brother told Fischer, careful there, you're carrying our family's history
>Fischer took the manuscript and published it

>> No.22690801

>>22690564
Good post. Thoughts on Joseph & His Brothers?

>> No.22690901

>>22690542
Reading Joseph now. Definitely like it so far, though I recommend rereading all of Genesis first.

>> No.22690904

>>22690542
He was a gay pedophile and yes, you should read his work.