Just finished reading this Jesus Christ just fucking hold me

>>8469841
as a non white I resd this book and immediately contracted tuberculosis. for aesthetic reasons.

This book touches upon so many subjects, it's incredible. If there ever was a roman of ideas.
But even if we ignore all the complex themes, there's still that slice of life aspect which is present throughout the whole book. I already can guess how much hurt the nostalgia for this book will give me in the future.

do you need to read will as repr for it?

>>8469957
Is this a meme? I saw Schopenhauer mentioned in another Magic Mountain thread on /lit/ a few days ago.

>>8469819
If you're not a middle-aged German-speaking European with a masters degree apropos of Western philosophy, you do not understand this book.

>>8470125
Can you explain the book so we can understand?

>>8470022
It is a kind of meme. Schopenhauer is far more important for Buddenbrooks.

>>8470125
I am not German, but I am European, have Phd in philosophy and I feel I understand the novel. However I can't say the same about Doktor Faustus, it is way too complex.

>>8470128
>>8470165
Why are you responding seriously to bait?

KIRGHIZ EYES

>>8470186
P E D E R A S T Y

>>8470351
>characters represent pre ww1 europe
>n then they all die
Ebin