Title
For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Magic Mountain: Hemingway’s Debt to Thomas Mann
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Influence study identifying Thomas Mann’s work as a major source by explicating similar themes, techniques, characters, and story arcs. Extended discussion of the relative time dimension found in both novels. Adair suggests that Hemingway’s story “updates” Mann’s metaphor of a culture wishing for death.
Published in
Twentieth Century Literature
Volume
35
Issue
4
Date
Winter 1989
Pages
429-444
COinS
Citation
Adair, William. “For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Magic Mountain: Hemingway’s Debt to Thomas Mann.” Twentieth Century Literature 35, no. 4 (Winter 1989): 429-44.