Reluctant readers on Mann's Magic Mountain: Ida Herz Lecture 2020

Journal article

Abstract:: Sanatorium Arktur, Konstantin Fedin’s Russian novel of 1940, is fashioned as a communist response to Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg (1924). In different ways, Fedin and his characters are shown to be both critical of the ideological backdrop of Mann’s novel and intensely drawn to the story world he portrays. This paper contextualizes a comparative reading of Der Zauberberg and Sanatorium Arktur with reference to discussions of and reactions to Mann’s work by many other communist, Marxist, or generally socially critical readers, ranging from Bertolt Brecht, Vittorio de Sica, and Thomas Bernhard to an anonymous Russian steamship machinist described by Peter Huchel.

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Language:: English
Keywords:: reception

Konstantin Fedin

sanatorium

Thomas Bernhard

FFR

Thomas Mann

Der Zauberberg
Pubs id:: 1161811
Local pid:: pubs:1161811
Deposit date:: 2021-02-16

Copyright holder:: Karolina Watroba.
Rights statement:: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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