Pribislav Hippe ("The Magic Mountain")

"Her high cheekbones … recall to him a childhood fascination with Slavicness – specifically, an idolized older boy at school, from whom the hero once, in the happiest moment of his life, borrowed a pencil."

• Never heard of it v

  Hermann%20Hesse

• Thomas Mann was gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. Every one of his novels makes that clear.

• Is The Magic Mountain any good? I've only read Death in Venice.

• some good things in the magic mountain the soup served daily at the sanitorium...soup everlasting...great metaphor for the tedium of much daily life

• also for you animal lovers A Man and his Dog

  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250509.Death_in_Venice_A_Man_and_His_Dog