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Abstract This essay explores how Colm Toíbín’s biographical novel The Magician, alongside Thomas Mann’s own writings, exposes contradictions in Mann’s definition of “nonpolitical,” the relationship … Expand
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Four demoralizing years of trench warfare later, Mann doubled down with Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen), a 500-page tract asserting Germany’s rights to defend itself against the aggressions of English and French “civilization”.
18 de may. de 2021 · “[Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man] feels not just worthy of our attention but somehow indispensable. . . . The idea that we do damage to life’s most important elements when we use them instrumentally, for political ends, poses a real challenge to our moment, obsessed as it is with the political responsibility of the artist.” —Christopher Beha, The New York Times Book Review
The bitter dispute between the brothers would swell into the strange, tortured, brilliant, sometimes perverse literary performance that is Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, a book that Mann worked on and added to throughout the war and that bears an intimate relation to his postwar masterpiece The Magic Mountain.
Thomas took it as an unforgivable stab in the back.The bitter dispute between the brothers would swell into the strange, tortured, brilliant, sometimes perverse literary performance that is Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, a book that Mann worked on and added to throughout the war and that bears an intimate relation to his postwar masterpiece The Magic Mountain.
REFLECTIONS OF A NON-POLITICAL MAN • BIRKERTS stand, to impress upon myself what this really meant in the world beyond the words. And I took pains to track the progress of Chomsky's argument: I marvelled at the cool fury of the prose. I could see Chomsky's determination to avoid all rhetoric, to let the facts speak for themselves.
