How do I start with him?

How do I start with him?

1. Death in Venice and Other Stories > 2. Buddenbrooks > 3. The Magic Mountain > 4. Joseph and His Brothers

correct, but
>no doctor faustus
literally what are you doing user?

Summon Mephistopheles and travel back in time to punch the pope.

I don’t really consider that essential Mann, I’m a heretic I know.

Meh, I'd read Buddenbrooks before Death in Venice and other stories (read "Tristan", too!)

With his diary about wanting to fuck his teenage son

Fucking hot. Was his son a little twink? Only reason why I want children desu

muh mandatory edgy "Mann was a pedohpile" post

everyone knows, idiot, it doesn't make his work any worse

It does though, a depraved soul can never make true art, only approximate it

By skipping him an reading actual modernists like Proust, Joyce or Beckett
Mann is garbage

surely you are jesting

joyce is overrated

(you)

What is the purpose of art other than the connection between spirits. Mann was a wretch and as such all his work is compromised. He may contain some technicians novelties (in his home language) but his art can not be of the spirit

define "the spirit"

The shared piece of God in all of us

Does every time something german-related is discussed a red lamp starts flashing in your basement, so you can shit up the thread and have your posts deleted? Fuck off.

Tell it to your maker Hans, if you didn't bring so much squalor to the world I wouldn't have to call you out on it

You are actually supposed to start with the greeks before you post on this board user.

And you're not meant to stop with the Greeks either. Go read some Aquinas

His only modernist novel is Doktor Faustus and short stories

dont you start with me young man

He's a hack writer with the desires of a 14 year old girl. Read your Cabell, lad.

>with the desires of a 14 year old girl
A 14 year old boyfriend? lol

Kek

>Go read some Aquinas
Aquinas had no use for art. You're a LARPer and a philistine.

>Aquinas had no use for art.

Absolute plebian. Look up Umberto Eco's work on him

I remember there was an user who posted or mentioned he had a Thomas Mann portrait on his bedroom.

Are you still around, user?