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  1. the roamer @[email protected] ·

    @photovotary

    Well spotted. The answer is Yes and No.

    It's not his real name. Since I myself use an alias here, my buddy quite rightly insisted on having one too.

    And yes, as his alias I chose the name of the hero in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, the book that shaped me more than any other.

    As a young man, I once spent a long night with a friend in a bar and at one point exclaimed, for all to hear, "Ich bin Hans Castorp", "I am Hans Castorp". That was some 40 years ago. The Magic Mountain is still the book that defines me, and Thomas Mann still the one author that lets me keep some hope for humankind. If he was possible, everything is possible.

    Castorp sits next to me and says hello. He loves attention.

    #HansCastorp #ThomasMann #MagicMountain #whippet_moments #hope

    #hanscastorp #thomasmann #magicmountain #whippet_moments #hope
  2. the roamer @[email protected] ·

    Happy Birthday, Thomas Mann.

    Reposting here an earlier post of mine, pointing to a wonderful reading of all of Thomas Mann's Zauberberg, The Magic Mountain.

    Yes, all of it. In 114 half-hour episodes.

    The reading took place on the stage of a Hamburg theatre during the 2020 lockdown, by actor Sven Walser, who died in 2023.

    It is a nuanced and faithful reading, and it is fresh, without the grandfatherly pomposity of some of the audiobooks.

    (In German, so it helps if you know a little German,)

    mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/110

    #ThomasMann #Zauberberg #MagicMountain #SvenWalser #HansCastorp #audiobooks

    #thomasmann #zauberberg #magicmountain #svenwalser #hanscastorp #audiobooks
  3. the roamer @[email protected] ·

    @magdelenehall

    Interesting.

    Thomas Mann's writings have been my constant companions since I was 16. The Magic Mountain is the one book I'd take to my Desert Island. I've read it an uncountable number of times. As a young man, I was seen in Berlin coffee houses exclaiming loudly, "I am Hans Castorp".

    I have read many Mann biographies and long ago decided that I could close down the biographical side and just keep reading this great writer's novels. But having read Daniel Kehlmann's congenial review of this new biography, it seems I was wrong. I will make sure to read Tilmann Lahme's Mann biography.

    (Kehlmann himself is of course an accomplished novelist. I enjoyed his early "Ich und Kaminski" and his "Die Vermessung der Welt".)

    Thanks for the link!

    #ThomasMann #TilmannLahme #DanielKehlmann
    #MagicMountain #HansCastorp

    #thomasmann #tilmannlahme #danielkehlmann #magicmountain #hanscastorp