172 pages into the magic mountain. it definitely reminds me of pessoa, the sanatorium is a sort of dreamscapenow i think this book is about violence, particularly with regard to the first world war. it seems to me that junger saw the war as a purification while mann saw the war as a sicknessi can't tell if mann is a genuine pacifist or if he was just a natsoc bandwagon. is the john e woods translation best?
>>25285506>i can't tell if mann is a genuine pacifist or if he was just a natsoc bandwagonDoctor Faustus should answer that question for you>As a moderate man and son of culture I have indeed a natural horror of radical revolution and the dictatorship of the lower classes, which I find it hard, owing to my tradition, to envisage as otherwise than in the imagery of anarchy and mob rule—in short in the destruction of culture. But when I recall the grotesque anecdote about the two saviours of European civilisation, the German and the Italian, both of them in the pay of finance capital, walking through the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, where they certainly did not belong, and one of them saying to the other that all these “glorious art treasures” would have been destroyed by Bolshevism if heaven had not prevented it by raising them up—when I recall all of this, then my notions about masses take on another colour, and the dictatorship of the proletariat begins to seem to me, a German burgher, an ideal situation compared with the now possible one of the dictatorship of the scum of the earth.
>>25285570Based mann shitting on shitler
>>25285570Kek, this guy was amazing
>>25285570I don't understand why did they not belong there, whats wrong with safeguarding art etc.
>>25285506>the sanatorium is a sort of dreamscapeSettembrini literally spells it out for you, it's Ogygia or even Hades.
>>25286395Because they were uncultured brutes
