Eric Naiman

Nov 27, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Karolina Watroba |Barbara Heldt |Eric Naiman |Piotr Gwiazda

Thomas Mann’s modernist magnum opus The Magic Mountain, a landmark novel of ideas-cum-comedy of manners set in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, was published on November 28, 1924. On the German literary scene that year, its publication dramatically overshadowed an event that had taken place six months earlier in another TB sanatorium: the death of Franz Kafka.

Oct 30, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | European Literature |Eric Naiman

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Jan 24, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Eric Naiman

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Aug 17, 2023 | nybooks.com | Eric Naiman

In the early autumn of 1950 Vladimir Nabokov received a letter from his editor’s husband, who was writing from their home in Brooklin, Maine. Dear Vladimir:There is a large grey spider that commonly inhabits out-buildings and sheds, and I turn to you on the chance that you know her and can enlighten me as to certain of her more intimate habits and functions—this because she figures in a book I am writing and I find myself, at this point, stuck.