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Aug 31, 2021 · “The Magician” is a big novel that waxes and wanes. Toibin traces Mann’s subtly changing politics — he was late to denounce Hitler, many thought — and the ups and downs of his reputation.
Sep 7, 2021 · 16,400 ratings2,136 reviews. Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual ...
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Sep 7, 2021 · Sept. 7, 2021. THE MAGICIAN. By Colm Toibin. Exiled in Switzerland in the early 1930s, Thomas Mann grew frantic about the private diaries he had left behind in Germany. As Colm Toibin writes in ...
Sep 7, 2021 · An intriguing view of a writer who well deserves another turn on the literary stage. The Irish writer’s fictional portrait of Thomas Mann highlights his family life. What adventures the Mann children have. Erika weds W.H. Auden to get a British passport. Monika survives the torpedo attack that sank the SS City of Benares in World War II.
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Sep 17, 2021 · It’s hard to imagine a reader for these novels who didn’t share the author’s affection for their protagonists. The Magician begins with a teenage Mann and his siblings, in the family’s ...
Sep 13, 2021 · Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ imagines the adventurous life of a literary great. Review by Dennis Drabelle. September 14, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. The American critic Malcolm Cowley summed up ...
Aug 27, 2021 · With “The Magician,” he offers an even more ambitious fictional portrait of the great 20th-century German novelist Thomas Mann. “The Master” imagined four years in Henry James’s life ...
