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Hidden away amongst Aschenbach’s writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant...more

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He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to take shelter from the demanding diversity of phenome...more

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Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the coun...more

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There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the deman...more

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What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes until the v...more

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, ...more

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Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loathing one autumn afternoon when, as they were walkin...more

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What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

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Kindly permit me to tell you, sir, that I hate you. I hate you and your child, as I hate the life of which you are the representative: cheap, ridiculo...more