Poeple must think I'm the most obnoxious nitpicker of all times :-)) I actually was about to write my last entry and then pack the computer away. Of course I couldn't resist the temptation to read thruogh your comments to Felix Krull, and of course, I have nothing intelligent to say except that they were totally worth reading and definitelay would bear a re-reading. I haven't actually read the book *hangs head in shame*, but I can understand very well wahat you say about your knowledge of the journals influencig the way you read the novel. I have propably said this already, but one of the reasons Thomas Mann is so close to my heart (which is at least curious, since he's not a man to arouse "warm" feelings) is because I *know* how hard he struggled all his life, how much he suffered - and in this case, it is irrelevant whether the suffering is from imaginary causes, the pain in itself is very real. This man was striving for something above humanity, and that's what makes him so profoundly human.
And this is what you get from a girl with all her bags packed and her mind elsewhere. Gah.
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Date: 2004-05-29 11:17 am (UTC)And this is what you get from a girl with all her bags packed and her mind elsewhere. Gah.
Be hugged!!