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1. The guesthouse for gentlemen
Fascinating from the get-go. To notice the similarities and, more emphatically, the differences with Mann’s Zauberberg is a treat. Most significant possible the difference between Mann’s benevolent and ironic tone in majestis pluralis and Tokarczuk’s ‘we’, who like aliens, eerily and distantly observe Wojnicz.
— Jun 19, 2026 05:18AM
Fascinating from the get-go. To notice the similarities and, more emphatically, the differences with Mann’s Zauberberg is a treat. Most significant possible the difference between Mann’s benevolent and ironic tone in majestis pluralis and Tokarczuk’s ‘we’, who like aliens, eerily and distantly observe Wojnicz.
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…the other was so ugly as to be fascinating. Her dripping lip made her look like an ancient sculpture depicting some sort of creature from Hades.
That’s quite specific, isn’t it. What creature could that be?
— 14 hours, 13 min ago
That’s quite specific, isn’t it. What creature could that be?
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3. Pheasant distance
all these matters absorbed his mind, drawing the world inside, into the larger, chaotic space that each of us carries within like an invisible piece of luggage that we drag after us all our lives, without knowing why. Our true self.
O, so now it’s us? The narrator(s) and the reader alike?
— Jun 25, 2026 12:55PM
all these matters absorbed his mind, drawing the world inside, into the larger, chaotic space that each of us carries within like an invisible piece of luggage that we drag after us all our lives, without knowing why. Our true self.
O, so now it’s us? The narrator(s) and the reader alike?
Eric Maas
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…putting themselves in order after the anarchic reign of illness.
— Jun 25, 2026 02:38AM
Eric Maas
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2. Schwärmerei
Opitz’s wife has committed suicide and Wojnicz finds her body on the dinner table. Later that day, a first acquaintance with the other guests. Peculiar lot. And the narrator(s) still observe from the oddest corners. How strange it may seem, it’s their story…
— Jun 25, 2026 02:33AM
Opitz’s wife has committed suicide and Wojnicz finds her body on the dinner table. Later that day, a first acquaintance with the other guests. Peculiar lot. And the narrator(s) still observe from the oddest corners. How strange it may seem, it’s their story…
Eric Maas
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From travelers’ accounts it emerged that there were places and regions where tuberculosis did not feature: the higher mountains in all climatic zones, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and the steppes of Kirghizia.
That can’t be a coincidence and has to be a reference to Madame Chauchat und ihre Kirgisenaugen. For recovery. She might have stayed home…
— Jun 19, 2026 01:17AM
That can’t be a coincidence and has to be a reference to Madame Chauchat und ihre Kirgisenaugen. For recovery. She might have stayed home…
Eric Maas
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Wilhelm Opitz raises his finger (Wojnicz is realizing what an essential part of Wilhelm that finger is. (p6)
— Jun 17, 2026 09:39AM
