Way back in 2005, our group discussed Colm Toibin's The Master, which dramatized the life of Henry James at the turn of the 20th century. (I found it extraordinary, but my admittedly vague recollection is that not everyone at the discussion was bowled over by it.) Toibin is back now with another novel exploring the inner life of a sexually conflicted literary giant: Thomas Mann, whose Death in Venice we discussed in 2008. In The Magician, Toibin takes as his starting point Mann's (not so) secret diaries, which were published decades after the novelist's death, but covers his entire life--not just a slice of it. Here is the New York Times review.
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