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Mario & the Magician
Thomas Mann by Koenraad Tinel
In Torre di Venere, a popular Italian seaside resort on the Tyrrhenian Sea, summer slowly gives way to autumn. A young family hopes to find ease and tranquility there, but instead they find themselves in an oppressive atmosphere—populated by obsequious hotel owners, prudish guardians of the local customs, and children quarreling over a flag.
When the weather turns and the suffocating heat is replaced by a sultry sirocco, Cavaliere Cipolla makes his entrance: a demonic, hunchbacked hypnotist who, with his whip, manipulates, commands, and incites his audience. In the humble waiter Mario, the dark magician meets his destiny.
With the novella Mario and the Magician (1930), German author Thomas Mann (1875–1955) gave voice to a stifling sense of unease after a holiday in Italy—a foreboding of the world’s descent, only a few years later, into a second all-devouring war under the rise of fascism.
Koenraad Tinel (b. 1934) was struck by the contemporary echoes of the story and, in close collaboration with translator Els Snick, distills from it a searingly imagined warning.
To be published on June 11
Oogachtend / Arbeiderspers, 304 pages. €34.99Book presentations:
Book launch – June 16, 5:00 PM, AMSTERDAM
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Goethe-Institut, Herengracht 470Book launch – June 22, 11:30 AM, LEUVEN
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