Thomas Mann

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Briefly mentioned as a later work in the Faustian literary tradition — 'Thomas Mann will write about Faust a few decades after Conrad' — placing Heart of Darkness within a continuum of works exploring the theme of selling one's soul.

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Explicitly mentioned as Thomas Mann's 'great book' set in Lübeck, referenced when discussing the respectable middle-class Germans before WWI and their Protestant virtues.

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Described as a 'brilliant novel' about a German family who frequently visit Travemünde near Lübeck, in the context of discussing German seaside resorts.

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Described as 'the great book about kind of bourgeois German Victorianism... about this family in Lübeck'

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Sophie reads Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain by torchlight after lights out while working at the munitions factory. Mann is noted as being in exile and 'an enemy of the third Reich.'

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Mentioned as an example of the intellectual and cultural afterlife of the Akhenaten story, alongside Philip Glass's opera about Akhenaten