A divided society, existential fears and the specter of war: Thomas Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain" is still frighteningly relevant, a century after its first publication.The rooms are ...

Thomas Mann's last book, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, is a study of a young man's education. Both the young man and the education are exceptional. Felix Krull is a man of talent and ...

Lion Feuchtwanger and Thomas Mann were two of the more prominent “exiles in paradise.” Their new surroundings reminded them of the Mediterranean while they were constantly thinking about the country, ...

“The physician assured me that I should be acting wisely to remain there for six months and take the cure. If I had followed his advice, who knows, I might still be there! I wrote The Magic ...

Taking as its departure point Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain (1924) – a canonical example of Mitteleuropean proto-existentialism – The Empusium is a deft new take on the novel of ideas and ...