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   Sep 7, 2021 · Kindle $14.99. Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from ...

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2. www.nytimes.com › 2021/08/31 › booksColm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary ...

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   Aug 31, 2021 · “The Magician” is a big novel that waxes and wanes. Toibin traces Mann’s subtly changing politics — he was late to denounce Hitler, many thought — and the ups and downs of his reputation.

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4. www.nytimes.com › review › colm-toibin-magicianColm Toibin Imagines the Life of Thomas Mann in ‘The Magician’

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   Sep 7, 2021 · THE MAGICIAN By Colm Toibin. ... No, he thought, it would have to be a boy. And the story would have to suggest that the desire was sexual, but it would also, of course, be distant and impossible

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   Sep 7, 2021 · The novella had its origins in a visit Mann made with his wife and children to Venice in 1911. For some time prior to this, according to a letter he wrote at the time, he had wished to write a story about "passion as confusion and degradation" based on the true story of German writer Johann Goethe's love for an 18-year-old baroness.

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   Now Colm Tóibín, Columbia’s Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities, brings a novelist’s eye to the subject in The Magician, a fictionalized retelling of Mann’s story. Tóibín’s 2004 novel The Master gave Henry James similar treatment, and the books have been aptly described by one critic as “bionovs,” the ...

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   The Magician A dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War. Colm Tóibín’s magnificent new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable.

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   • The Magician is an intimate, astonishingly complex portrait of Mann, his magnificent and complex wife Katia, and the times in which they lived—the first world war, the rise of Hitler, World War II, the Cold War, and exile. This is a man and a family fiercely engaged by the world, profoundly flawed, and unforgettable.

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   • After a wobbly first season, Syfy’s The Magicians (based on the books by Lev Grossman) has gotten a better sense of itself in its second. The show follows a group of 20-somethings who find themselves in charge of a magical Narnia-like land while attending a Hogwarts-like magic college.

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   • “The Magician” is a big novel that waxes and wanes. Toibin traces Mann’s subtly changing politics — he was late to denounce Hitler, many thought — and the ups and downs of his reputation.

   Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant

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   How does Toibin feel about 'the magician'?

   • In “The Magician,” Toibin seeks to grasp the entirety of Mann’s life and times, the way a biographer might, and he does so quite neatly. Maximalist in scope but intimate in feeling, “The Magician” never feels dutiful. Like its subject, it’s somber, yet it’s also prickly and strange, sometimes all at once.

   Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant

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   How many pages in the magician?

   • The Magician is an intimate, astonishingly complex portrait of Mann, his magnificent and complex wife Katia, and the times in which they lived—the first world war, the rise of Hitler, World War II, the Cold War, and exile. 498 pages, Hardcover First published September 7, 2021

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9. www.irishtimes.com › culture › booksThe Magician by Colm Tóibín: Beautiful, sweeping exploration ...

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   Sep 26, 2021 · The Magician. Author:Colm Toibin. ISBN-13:978-0241004616. Publisher:Viking. Guideline Price:£18.99. The Magician is a novel of the life of the German novelist Thomas Mann, following him from ...