![]() ![]() ![]() The intoxicating effect of “drinking that metaphysical magic potion,” he recalled years later, “can only be compared with the one which the first contact with love and sex produces in the young mind.” For Mann, as for so many writers and artists of his generation, the discovery of Schopenhauer was nothing less than a revelation, a new way of looking at the world and one’s place in it. Thomas Mann was in his early twenties-and in the middle of writing Buddenbrooks-when he first read Schopenhauer. ![]()
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