/lit/ - Literature

>>15247972
Let's see what Thomas Mann has to say about Schopenhauer:
>The world as will and Representation - a highly factual headline, which in three words not only the content of the book, but also the person who created it, in its powerful darkness and equally powerful brightness, its deep sensuality and strictly pure spirituality, fully expresses his suffering and desire for redemption. It is a phenomenon of a book.

>This is a work of such cosmic unity and all-inclusive power of thought that one has a strange experience with it: If it has occupied you for a long time, everything else - but also everything - that you read in between or immediately afterwards comes to you as foreign, uninformed, incorrect, arbitrary.

>[I found in Schopenhauer] an experience of truth, so hard-hitting and stab-proof, right as I have not found it otherwise in philosophy. You can live and die with it - especially to die: I dare to say that the Schopenhauerian truth, that it can be accepted in the last hour, is suitable without effort, without deliberating, and without words.

>I called Schopenhauer's philosophy *modern*. I should have called it *one for the future*.

>>14142710
>spirits you away to the mountains for 900 pages

pic might be related

Was he just a Musil wannabe?

What the fuck was his problem?

among others are getting free
No more copyrighths

>>11591913
i wish is was a manly man Mann: the Mann man

What are your favourite works of Thomas Mann? Do you guys prefer his shorter fiction or the bigger tomes? Bonus question: has anyone here actually managed to finish the Magic Mountain? I'm currently reading a collection of his early works and figured some discussion would be nice.

>>11400106
>I don't wanna read some fucking gay shit

Best stop reading literature then, bro

>>11340393
You can't live the /lit/erary lifestyle if you're not at least a little homoerotic

And that goes for femanons as well, read your Sappho girls

What´s lit opinion on him?