On p104 ('early on' for a 700p novel), an omniscient narrator, not Hans Castorp, suddenly intrudes and discusses time, hitting its high point with the ironically flat (one of the main modes of German expression) line:

"Many false conceptions are held concerning the nature of tedium."

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52 Authors: Week 32 – Thomas Mann I have met few people who have read Thomas Mann extensively, and, among those few, fewer still who hold him in as high regard as I do. The problem, therefore, seems to be one mostly of neglect, and…

maybe, we should read Joseph & His Brothers? Mann considered it his greatest work.

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lightondarkwater.com/2015/08/09/5...

#Multiplicity #Borges #ItaloCalvino #MannTogether @literaturesc.bsky.social
Just read this essay today- now reaching for my Borges & bumping up Mann's Magic Mountain on the ever-growing TBR! 💕

The Upper West Side’s Hungarian Pastry Shop Is Open for Everything Referenced in pop culture and close to Columbia and Barnard's campuses, the Hungarian Pastry Shop is loved by students, writers and tourists alike.

the merch is very cute. esp the mugs.
here's another piece about them. the owner phillip is a big reader too! i like talking mann with him. #manntogether
ediblemanhattan.com/restaurants/...

[Mann] was immediately taken with the social scene of sanatorium life, where new arrivals were announced in the newspaper’s social register—the longer one stayed, the higher one’s name rose on the list.
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The Mother of the Mother of the Virgin Mary - The Paris Review “Could the flesh that bore the Messiah have required something as sinful as lust for its conception?”

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/04...
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@literaturesc.bsky.social You might find this article of interest.

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“Unlike me, Tokarczuk didn’t have a particularly religious upbringing. Nor had she encountered Emerentia in a catalogue of saints’ lives; instead, she found the name, whose thread she followed, in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain”

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Under a Spell Everlasting - The American Scholar Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war

"The Schatzalp provided the architectural details for the fictional Berghof sanitorium, but its interior was modeled after the Waldsanatorium." #manntogether
theamericanscholar.org/under-a-spel...

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how do you quiet the mind to write? mann used to spend the entire morning in his study undisturbed until lunch time. #kanusgaardtogether #manntogether

Louis Suarez — thesis.SoA architecture, thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Architecture, work, exhibition, online, undergraduate, graduate, commoning

very cool visuals about magic mountain #Mann2024 #manntogether
thesis.soa.cmu.edu/Louis-Suarez

To the Magic Mountain!

nice to be at a new home, one where I can (re)discover eccentric bookish friends (and like hans castorp, overstay!) of course, my first post has to be about THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, my favorite novel! #manntogether
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...