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The Magic Mountain: Commentary Break 5: More on Mephistopheles

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg), with R.J. "Zauber" Bergmann

More on the mephistophelean character of Herr Settembrini.

Apologies for the abrupt video interruption; it, though fortunately not the audio, stopped recording when I opened my electronic notes in a different program!

This commentary is doubly endebted to Walter Kaufmann in his role as translator, for excerpts from both Nietzsche’s The Gay Science and Goethe’s Faust I (Random House 1974 and 1961, respectively).

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