‘The Magician’ by Colm Tóibín – Reading Matters
Fiction - paperback; Picador; 436 pages; 2021. Colm Tóibín is one of my favourite writers, but The Magician didn't quite work for me. It’s an account of the life and times of Nobel Prize-winning German author Thomas Mann (1875-1955), whose work — Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain et al — I’ve never read,…