tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post8947151334446273721..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: save our treasures of beauty - Thomas Mann's "Death in Florence"Amateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-64564364138498542352016-12-09T16:28:50.763-06:002016-12-09T16:28:50.763-06:00It'll be a while before I get to 1941. I hope...It'll be a while before I get to 1941. I hope I remember about the book.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-8375460365039821312016-12-09T16:07:25.437-06:002016-12-09T16:07:25.437-06:00The linked article is the tip of the iceberg. _Feb...The linked article is the tip of the iceberg. _February House_, with the rest of the iceberg, and more famous names as guest and visitors, will blow your mind. RTDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17113953356514605424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-33358897516295929302016-12-09T16:00:24.927-06:002016-12-09T16:00:24.927-06:00That's a lot of famous people crossing paths. ...That's a lot of famous people crossing paths. I had not known about that house.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-85156969354273649912016-12-09T14:41:06.287-06:002016-12-09T14:41:06.287-06:00Because of my curious fascination with connections...Because of my curious fascination with connections between and among literary figures, your posting reminds me of a different location and a different time, involving Mann's children, which you can read about via this link:<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/nyregion/thecity/genius-and-high-jinks-at-7-middagh-street.html?_r=0<br />Once upon a time, oh so long ago, I was working with someone else on research for a book we planned to write about 7 Middagh Street. Alas, we lost momentum, distracted by other projects, and all of our work was trumped by another writer who published a book entitle _February House_. But all of that aside, the Mann family remains fascinating. I hope you enjoy the detour to 7 Middagh Street.RTDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17113953356514605424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-18670198798170040302016-12-09T10:55:13.188-06:002016-12-09T10:55:13.188-06:00Maybe when Boyle gets volume 3 published.Maybe when Boyle gets volume 3 published.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-58538932101924847002016-12-09T10:35:39.095-06:002016-12-09T10:35:39.095-06:00Nicholas Boyle's biography: another book I ver...Nicholas Boyle's biography: another book I very much like and have never succeeded in reading straight through. Germans, and those who write about Germans, I suppose...<br /><br />If you ever do this Goethe re-read, I'm on board. I'd join in eagerly. Eckermann's conversations, Poetry & Truth, and Boyle; then some proportion of the voluminous works. It would be great.Robert Mintohttp://www.robertminto.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-25270775550053958562016-12-09T09:22:31.601-06:002016-12-09T09:22:31.601-06:00Yes, it is easy to understand how Stories of Three...Yes, it is easy to understand how <i>Stories of Three Decades</i> has been divvied up and replaced.<br /><br />That was all I had on Goethe, I am afraid. It took that much throat-clearing just to write one post! How sad. I have threatened a big Goethe re-read project, but perhaps what I really want is for <i>someone else</i> to do it. Read Nicholas Boyle, read some big chunk of the Bollingen Goethe, etc. So much of what comes later in German literature, things that would have made no sense, are made clear - or, perhaps, badly distorted - by the way I see them through Goethe.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-57104170660929395122016-12-09T08:45:16.128-06:002016-12-09T08:45:16.128-06:00STORIES OF THREE DECADES, and its companion volume...STORIES OF THREE DECADES, and its companion volume ESSAYS OF THREE DECADES, are two of my favorite books. And yet, somehow, I’ve never been able to drag myself straight through either one. Mann is delightful, but good lord is he tedious consumed in quantity.<br /><br />Unrelated question, if you don't mind: are you going to come back to Goethe's Italian Journeys? Your "introduction to the whole Goethe thing" and first Italian Journeys post got me unreasonably excited last month, and I've been briefly grumpy with each post since then for not being a continuation of the series...Robert Mintohttp://www.robertminto.comnoreply@blogger.com