I was pleased to hear that Serpent’s Tail have published Pawel Huelle’s new book, The Last Supper. I have previously enjoyed Huelle’s collection of short stories, his novel Who Was David Weisner? and also his prequel to Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, Castorp, all of which show Huelle to be a substantial European literary figure. Whereas [...]
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In Castorp we revisit the life of Hans Castorp, of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. As many readers will know, in The Magic Mountain, Hans Castorp visits his cousin, a patient in a Swiss sanatorium high up in the Alps. He is persuaded to have a medical examination, and drifts into a prolonged [...] |
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