2021年9月7日 · Colm Toibin brilliantly wrote The Magician which blended fact with fiction. It was an intimate exploration of the life of the intriguing and talented German author, Thomas Mann, best know for his literary contributions of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain.

The Magician, published in 2021, is a novel by Colm Tóibín. It is a fictional biography of German Nobel laureate Thomas Mann. [1]

Colm Tóibín’s magnificent new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable.

2021年8月31日 · “The Magician” is a big novel that waxes and wanes. Toibin traces Mann’s subtly changing politics — he was late to denounce Hitler, many thought — and the ups and downs of his reputation.

2021年9月7日 · THE MAGICIAN. by Colm Tóibín ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 7, 2021. An intriguing view of a writer who well deserves another turn on the literary stage.

2024年3月16日 · Colm Tóibín is one of my favourite writers, but The Magician didn't quite work for me. It’s an account of the life and times of Nobel Prize-winning German author Thomas Mann (1875-1955), whose work — Buddenbrooks, Death in …

2022年9月20日 · In this “exquisitely sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) novel, Tóibín has crafted “a complex but empathetic portrayal of a writer in a lifelong battle against his innermost desires, his family, and the tumultuous times they endure” …

From one of today’s most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War that is “a feat of literary sorcery in its own right” (Oprah Daily).

Colm Tóibín’s eleventh novel, The Magician, is a dramatisation of the life of Thomas Mann. It begins in 1891 with the death of Mann’s father, a successful businessman from the north German city of Lübeck, whose last agonised words to his fifteen-year-old son are, ‘You know nothing.’.