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Originally Posted by issybird
I read in a short piece by Peter Gay that Mann wrote an anti-Semitic story early in his career which he later suppressed; according to Gay, very few have read it or know of it, I assume.
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I never heard about this to tell the truth. We have a
list with all stories Mann wrote on german Wikipedia, it would be very kind if you could find out which story Peter Gay was talking about.
If Gay meant Mann's first story "
Gefallen", than that would be Gay's own private interpretation of this story since none of the protagonists is introduced as a Jew.
Mann called "Gefallen" a premature work some years later, that is right. There is a huge paragraph about analysis and interpretation about this story on Wikipedia. Statements on Wikipedia usually don't mean a lot, but this story is not regarded as antisemitic usually.