Welcome Spinnenmonat.
I haven't finished this yet as I'm juggling this with a couple of other books so I didn't read your post to the end, but just wanted to comment on the Thomas Mann reference. Thanks for reminding me that I wanted to pick up more of his work. I absolutely loved Death in Venice many years ago when I read it at University. I've never had an opportunity to study it in German as my command of that language is infantile at best. However, I enjoyed the book in English.
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