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The Magician
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- Durée : 16 h et 37 min
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Brought to you by Penguin.
The Sunday Times top 10 best seller
Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2022
From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family.
The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism. He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ravages of suicide. He would write some of the greatest works of European literature and win the Nobel Prize, but would never return to the country that inspired his creativity.
Through one life, Colm Toibin tells the breath-taking story of the 20th century.
Commentaires
"As with everything Colm Tóibín sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement—immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized." (Richard Ford)
"No living novelist dramatizes artistic creation as profoundly, as luminously, as Colm Tóibín...reading him is among the deepest pleasures our literature can offer." (Garth Greenwell)
"This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world." (Katharina Volckmer)
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Global4 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
- camille mather
- 02/03/2023
Rich well written story
I knew nothing of the life of thomas mann and now I a keen to read his books
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Global3 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire3 out of 5 stars
- Sélérate
- 22/01/2023
Not the masterpiece I expected
But nonetheless a pleasant book (if long at times), nicely written and performed. The life of Thomas Mann isnt as captivating as his novels.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Clot
- 21/07/2022
Magie
Why is Mann concerned with Magie?
Because he succeeds in creating art, that lasts long after finishing reading.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Viktors
- 21/05/2022
Author of interesting and compelling books made into a compelling character
This has been a great audio book. Excellent plot, narrative and excellent reading. Thomas Mann is drawn as an ambiguous, contradictory, humane person that can be liked and disliked depending on one’s attitude to life and others. What makes, can make, one happy or unhappy, actually, or presumably, lucky or unlucky? One of the questions the book made me think about. Thank you
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation4 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 31/01/2022
Wonderful encounter
Meet the magician, the wonderful writer. The master of irony, wit and intellect. A great story, wonderfully narrated.
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Global4 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
- Sanya
- 24/01/2023
Fascinating biography of Thomas Mann
Colm Tobin has managed to bring the life and times of famous German author Thomas Mann to English-speaking audiences and it is lively book well worth reading. Mann was a troubled homosexual who nevertheless married and fathered 6 children and achieved fame and respectability. Starting in Lübeck, then to Munich it’s a fascinating account of the rise of Hitler. Mann‘s tacit and his children’s open disdain for the regime led them to emigrate, first to Switzerland and then to the US. Here he was a feted author and regarded as a moral authority at a time when the US were deciding on whether to intervene in WW2 or not. It shows the inner turmoil of Mann who became embroiled at the highest political level. Moments of high political significance are intermingled with his innermost thoughts and different family dramas. His family were so varied that their episodes in themselves could fill a telenovela!
Highly recommend this book for all who want to read an excellently written fictional account of an unconventional family during fascinating times.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Ninik
- 09/09/2022
Thought provoking
The book is wonderfully written and performed. Hard not to draw parallels with today's world.
