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...been for the blanket of powder snow and the blue skies, the problems under discussion this year might have seemed weighty enough to send Mann's hero Hans Castorp back to the sanitarium for another seven years. Europe's most influential men were deeply upset over the turmoil in international financial markets. In a session chaired by former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, Karl Otto Pohl, president of the West German Bundesbank, expressed concern over the disparate rates of inflation throughout Europe and the West, calling for "effective measures for coordinating economic policy." Guido Carli, former governor...
...decides Will Barrett, anyway. So thought Hans Castorp--a lot more eloquently--in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain: "For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts...
...decides Will Barrett, anyway. So thought Hans Castorp--a lot more eloquently--in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain: "For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts...
...decides Will Barrett, anyway. So thought Hans Castorp--a lot more eloquently--in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain: "For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts...
Some slightly new notes are found in Mann's writing in the volume. There is a marked shift to the sensual. Krull's delight in candies and women and circuses are far beyond even the despest inner longings of Hans Castorp. The insistent attention to clothes, though possibly dictated by the content are a material-sensual innovation. Humor too is introduced in these confessions. Conscious irony, conscious humiliation of foolish people by a foolish man force chuckles from any reader...