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...THOMAS MANN: THE MAKING OF AN ARTIST, 1875-1911 by Richard Winston Knopf; 325 pages...
...hubris to advance a world view, to rewrite the Bible in his Joseph novels, to devise the great metaphor of Europe as a sanatorium full of the walking wounded in The Magic Mountain. Was Thomas Mann ever unsure of himself, writing his quota of pages day after day in the comfort of a Germany he was later to renounce for exile in California? Was he ever young...
...answer seems to be yes-just barely-on the basis of the rich evidence assembled by Richard Winston, editor of Letters of Thomas Mann and a distinguished translator, who died at 62 in 1979 after reaching only the 36th year in Mann's life...
NABOKOV hated many things--popular culture, for instance, including advertising, journalism, and psychology (Freud was the Viennese witch doctor). He hated Thomas Mann. And most interesting of all, he hated Dostoevsky. Nabokov is at his most provocative when he ranks the great Russians. Most of his own emotions, it seems, were poured into his worshipping of Tolstoy, on the one hand, and his vicious debunking of Dostoevsky, on the other. The final ranking is, officially: 1. Tolstoy; 2. Gogol; 3. Chekhov; 4. Turgenev. Dostoevsky is dead last. Nabokov accuses him of sloppy and melodramatic Christianity, reactionary slavophilism (which Nabokov links...
Other characters come off somewhat better. Freshman Merv Griffin gives a feeling of honesty to his role of Curtis Mann, the Janitor-turned-member of the band. Myrna Gellman (Sabrina Peck) has one of the livelier roles, and Peck provides the infectious enthusiasm and strong singing that the play must have to survive. Other characters: the British corporate heir of clipped accents and buried principles (Anthony Calnek) or the young committed activist, Barbara MacNeil (Sue Morris), carry off competent portrayals of paper-mache stereotypes...