Silent music of the prose? The potential of performativity in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i31p326-344Keywords:
Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg, Literature and Music, Narrative Performativity, Time, LeitmotivAbstract
Thomas Mann influenced narrative theory permanently with his novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain, published 1924) and the remarks made in his introductory lecture in 1939, during his wartime exile in the U.S.A. This article examines the main arguments of this lecture and relevant passages from the novel to demonstrate that aspects of the text related to music refer more specifically to a potential for narrative performativity. This potential is demonstrated and explained in the article using exemplary excerpts from the novel.
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