In order to make the education of his hero a realistic and demanding endeavor, Mann includes a welter of facts and fictions from the intellectual discourse of his time. Verbal duels of great intricacy are conducted over the span of many pages; scientific digressions assume the length of independent studies. The author succeeds almost always in containing these often amorphous pursuits by placing them into a tightly circumscribed locale and by distributing them among a small number of carefully studied players.
That the readers do not.....
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