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Quotation by Thomas Mann
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Adrian Leverkühn, in Doctor Faustus trans. by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, Vintage Books, Random House (1948)"A Man and his Dog" Stories of Three Decades (1919, repr. 1930)"An Appeal to Reason" in Thomas MannOrder of the Day, Political Essays and Speeches of Two Decades trans. by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, Knopf (1942)Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man trans. by Denver Lindley, Vintage Books (1955)Death in Venice trans. by David Luke, Bantam Classic (1988)
Irony, forsooth! Guard yourself, Engineer, from the sort of irony that thrives up here; guard yourself altogether from taking on their mental attitude! Where irony is not a direct and classic device of oratory, not for a moment equivocal to a healthy mind, it makes for depravity, it becomes a drawback to civilization, an unclean traffic with the forces of reaction, vice and materialism.
Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German author, critic. Originally published as Der Zauberberg, Fischer (1924). The Magic Mountain, ch. 5, p. 220, trans. by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, The Modern Library, McGraw-Hill (1955).
Settembrini's critique of irony is also a partial self- critique of the ironic author.
Settembrini's critique of irony is also a partial self- critique of the ironic author.
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