The Magician review – the revival of Thomas Mann and pre-war German sensibility
Colm Toibin’s latest book provides a reimagined insight into the life of German literary icon, Thomas Mann.
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Colm Toibin’s latest book provides a reimagined insight into the life of German literary icon, Thomas Mann.
This week’s poem exhibits some of the traits that characterise that energetic and exalted phase in European literature.
In literature, there are two fundamental journeys: descent, katabasis, the progress into our basest element, and its reverse, ascent. At the extreme of each, there
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