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  • On Goldstein’s Novels of Ideas: Thomas Mann’s The Holy Sinner

    On Goldstein’s Novels of Ideas: Thomas Mann’s The Holy Sinner

    This piece continues a series of reviews highlighting philosopher-novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s list of the best “novels of ideas”. Thomas Mann’s The Holy Sinner was the third entry on her list. Reviewed in this essay: The Holy Sinner, Thomas Mann. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Knopf, 1951. When The Holy Sinner was published in English in…