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SUMMARY:Reading: The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making o
 f the Magic Mountain
DESCRIPTION:AUTHOR READING by Morten Høi Jensen\n\n“The Master of Contra
 dictions offers us a new way to think about Mann as a writer and pedagogue
  whose first object of education was himself. It is a worthy tribute to th
 is fascinating writer.”—Susan Bernofsky\, The Nation\n\n“The Master 
 of Contradictions is many things: a biography of Thomas Mann’s The Magic
  Mountain\, a history of the Weimar Republic\, and a story about one reade
 r’s relationship to the most beguiling novel of the twentieth century. M
 orten Høi Jensen writes from a place of profound feeling and deep eruditi
 on. He is the perfect guide to the novel’s intricate\, enchanted world\;
  I did not want to stop exploring it with him.”—Merve Emre\, contribut
 ing writer\, New Yorker\n\nLike many writers of his generation\, Thomas Ma
 nn (1875–1955) welcomed the outbreak of the First World War. He viewed i
 t as a spiritual necessity\, a chance to reassert German cultural dominanc
 e over Western ideas of democracy and enlightenment. Then\, in 1924\, he p
 ublished The Magic Mountain\, a massive novel that culminates in the slaug
 hter of war and foreshadows the Nazi terror to come. One of the central ac
 hievements of modernism\, The Magic Mountain bears testimony to its author
 ’s dramatic political reorientation as a defender of democracy.\n\nThis 
 poignant book is a biography of Mann’s great novel—its evolution from 
 a short story into a two-volume masterpiece and one of the bestselling nov
 els of the Weimar era. Deftly weaving together elements of biography\, his
 tory\, and literary criticism\, Morten Høi Jensen reveals how writing The
  Magic Mountain against a backdrop of world war\, revolution\, hyperinflat
 ion\, and rising right-wing terror moved Mann to embrace the democratic an
 d humanistic ideas he once scorned.\n\nOne hundred years after The Magic M
 ountain was first published\, at a time when democratic ideas are again un
 der threat\, Jensen reveals the universality and timeliness of Mann’s gr
 eat novel—its still-resonant debates over democracy and tyranny\, time a
 nd place\, illness and death.\n\nMorten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American w
 riter and critic. He is the author of A Difficult Death: The Life and Work
  of Jens Peter Jacobsen and has contributed to numerous publications\, inc
 luding the Washington Post\, the New York Review of Books\, Commonweal\, a
 nd Liberties\, where he is the European Liaison.\n\nThis event is free. No
  registration necessary.
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LOCATION:The Munich Readery\, Augustenstrasse 104\, München\, Bayern\, 807
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