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Interesting.

Thomas Mann's writings have been my constant companions since I was 16. The Magic Mountain is the one book I'd take to my Desert Island. I've read it an uncountable number of times. As a young man, I was seen in Berlin coffee houses exclaiming loudly, "I am Hans Castorp".

I have read many Mann biographies and long ago decided that I could close down the biographical side and just keep reading this great writer's novels. But having read Daniel Kehlmann's congenial review of this new biography, it seems I was wrong. I will make sure to read Tilmann Lahme's Mann biography.

(Kehlmann himself is of course an accomplished novelist. I enjoyed his early "Ich und Kaminski" and his "Die Vermessung der Welt".)

Thanks for the link!

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