The Magic Mountain
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in MFS Modern Fiction Studies
- Vol. 32 (4) , 487-520
- https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0067
Abstract
"Nobody has ever loved his own ego," Mann wrote in the essay "Goethe and Tolstoy" (1922); "nobody was ever egocentric in the sense of conceiving of his own ego as a cultural task . . . without reaping . . . educational influence in the outer world" (Essays 160). Mann was surely thinking of the reason for his own influence, as well as for his great predecessors'. All his work explores a single "egocentric...Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Magic MountainThe Antioch Review, 1996
- Fiction as Wisdom from Goethe to BellowSouth Atlantic Review, 1981