Thomas Mann Quote

It often happens that an old family, with traditions that are entirely practical, sober and bourgeois, undergoes in its declining days a kind of artistic transfiguration.

Ch. 7 - Tristan (1902)

It often happens that an old family, with traditions that are entirely practical, sober and bourgeois, undergoes in its declining days a kind of...

It often happens that an old family, with traditions that are entirely practical, sober and bourgeois, undergoes in its declining days a kind of...

It often happens that an old family, with traditions that are entirely practical, sober and bourgeois, undergoes in its declining days a kind of...

It often happens that an old family, with traditions that are entirely practical, sober and bourgeois, undergoes in its declining days a kind of...