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Thomas Mann

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How else is the famous short story ‘A study in Abjection’ to be understood but as an outbreak of disgust against an age indecently undermined by psychology.
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On a short story of the character, "Gustav Aschenbach". Ch. 2, as translated by David Luke

 
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