{"title":"Morten Høi Jensen","description":"Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer and critic. He is the author of A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen and has contributed to numerous publications, including the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, Commonweal, and Liberties.","products":[{"product_id":"the-master-of-contradictions-thomas-mann-and-the-making-of-the-magic-mountain-hardcover","title":"The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A lavish work of historical analysis that doubles as a kind of psychological thriller. Mann's magnum opus is not just a novel, Jensen suggests, but a thinly veiled spiritual autobiography.\"--Anna Ballan, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Criterion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) welcomed the outbreak of the First World War. He viewed it as a spiritual necessity, a chance to reassert German cultural dominance over Western ideas of democracy and enlightenment. Then, in 1924, he published \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, a massive novel that culminates in the slaughter of war and foreshadows the Nazi terror to come. One of the central achievements of modernism, \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e bears testimony to its author's dramatic political reorientation as a defender of democracy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis poignant book is a biography of Mann's great novel--its evolution from a short story into a two-volume masterpiece and one of the bestselling novels of the Weimar era. Deftly weaving together elements of biography, history, and literary criticism, Morten H i Jensen reveals how writing \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e against a backdrop of world war, revolution, hyperinflation, and rising right-wing terror moved Mann to embrace the democratic and humanistic ideas he once scorned. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne hundred years after \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e was first published, at a time when democratic ideas are again under threat, Jensen reveals the universality and timeliness of Mann's great novel--its still-resonant debates over democracy and tyranny, time and place, illness and death.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298900017375,"sku":"9780300233742","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PVm6s0sVpr9780300233742.webp?v=1788133927"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/morten-hoi-jensen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}