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Article: Literatur und Krankheit im Fin-de-siecle (1890-1914): Thomas Mann im europaischen Kontext.(Book Review)

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Literatur und Krankheit im Fin-de-siecle (1890-1914): Thomas Mann im europaischen Kontext. Die Davoser Literaturtage 2000. Ed. by THOMAS SPRECHER. (Thomas-Mann-Studien, 26) Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann. 2002. 284 pp. 58 [euro]. ISBN 3465-03163-6 (hbk).

'I wish I had the voice of Homer ] To sing of rectal carcinoma', wrote J. B. S. Haldane, the eminent British scientist, as he was undergoing treatment for cancer in 1964. Haldane's aspiration was shared, and fulfilled, by the young Thomas Mann, the twentieth century's Homer of disease and degeneration, as this collection of papers from literary scholars, historians of medicine, and physicians shows again and in new ...

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