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Originally Posted by issybird
The winner is the only one I've read, so very many years ago that I'll give it a go again. Several of the others are now on my TBR list, including the runner-up (which had my vote). Special thanks for the nomination of Nobility of Spirit.
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I imagine that I can thank you for those, as I think it was me that proposed the book. I just finished it. It is a little book, and somehow I am glad that it was not elected. After reading it I have serious doubts that it would have generated a lively discussion.
I read it hoping to find analysis and arguments of a certain "usefulness". About that I was deceived. But I found other things, maybe more important and maybe, on the long run, more profitable, for me at least. I found the stimulus to reread Thomas Mann and Goethe, which I have not been reading since my youth. Too bad that I will have to read them in Italian. I never shared the concept of the centrality of the German Culture of the author and of Mann, although I am a big admirer of it. Nevertheless the message reached me strong and clear and with it the motivation to look back in time and there find new energy and scope.
If anybody would like to discuss this interesting little book with me, just drop me a word in my personal page and I will open a thread to that purpose.