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Thomas Mann

* June 6, 1875 in Germany - † August 12, 1955 in Switzerland
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This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a …

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Tonio Kröger er titlen på en novelle af Thomas Mann fra 1903. Om den unge forfatters splittelse mellem at være kunstner eller borger. Handler blandt andet om kunstnerens overvejelser omkring sin homosexualitet, og om han skal leve den ud. Hovedpersonens splittelse skildres klart i hans udtalelse „Ich stehe zwischen …