Why should you be the only ones that sin?
Colm Tóibín, 5 September 1996
Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature
by Anthony Heilbut.
Macmillan, 636 pp., £20, June 1996,9780394556338 Show More
by Anthony Heilbut.
Macmillan, 636 pp., £20, June 1996,
Thomas Mann: A Biography
by Ronald Hayman.
Bloomsbury, 672 pp., £20, March 1996,0 7475 2531 5 Show More
by Ronald Hayman.
Bloomsbury, 672 pp., £20, March 1996,
“... books on Mann, however, each as long as Buddenbrooks, have appeared in English. Ronald Hayman and Donald Prater are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to Anthony Heilbut’s Hamlet. They are dull and worthy and useful perhaps, and they repeat the same facts and the same narrative. Their desire for Mann to be a better person is almost comic. Heilbut has clearly ... ”