The Magician

The Magician

2021 • 512 pages

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Average rating4.1

15

A fictionalized biography of Thomas Mann, who's own novels had many autobiographical elements. While this well executed, and a great source of information about Mann and his family, my attention often drifted while the novel lost itself in too many details. It's written like a biography with an insight into Mann's mind. We hear so many conversations, and so many details about their different emigration routes, I would have wished for more magic.

January 16, 2022