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Article: Collegheft 1894-1895.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2003
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Collegheft 1894-1895. By THOMAS MANN. Ed. by YVONNE SCHMIDLIN and THOMAS SPRECHER. (Thomas-Mann-Studien, 24) Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann. 2001. 217 pp. 10 [euro]. ISBN 3-465-03137-7 (hbk).
'Tief', famously, 'ist der Brunnen der Vergangenheit'; but individual barrels have a bottom. This, some letters apart, is the earliest preserved Thomas Mann document, his notes as a 'Gasthorer' at the Munich Technische Hochschule and occasionally the University. What did a school leaver with no Abitur, a would-be writer aware of the gaps in his culture and of the professional need for knowledge, choose to hear about? Economics; literary and art history; aesthetics; some bits of ...