A seven page paper looking at the way this novel by Thomas Mann can be understood as a farewell to the nineteenth-century artist. The paper explains that Mann s work is at the same time an evocation and a rebuttal of German Romanticism. Bibliography lists seven sources. Bibliography lists 6 sources. The paper points out that by writing the story realistically but packing it with classical archetypes, Mann is able to gain both intelligibility and depth.
Bibliography lists six sources.