Tristan
Galería Isabel Hurley•Feb 20, 2026 — Apr 10, 2026
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Transfiguración (Transfiguration)
The period from Tristan. written in 1903 to that of The Magic Mountain of 1924, was an intensely creative time in the intellectual life of Thomas Mann. It resembled an ellipsis that travelled through an epoch and capsized in a sea that shook the foundations and, as Kubin believed, invited us to dance the “macabre dance of principles”. Mann was a priviledged witness of this time. Buddenbrook was a veritable history lesson, the subject of which was none other than the 19^th^ century German bourgeoisie, subjected now to a difficult destiny. In tandem with Fontane, Mann had pointed to the journey in which he obsered how pessimism lodged in the conscience of the German bourgeoisie. Lukacs wiould realise the political-ideological implications of such an attitude.
In this context Mann's Tristan has a special significance. Written as a novella it shows us a change in narrative register, far from the history lesson and open to a fantasy from which questions…
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Tristan
Galería Isabel Hurley•Feb 20, 2026 — Apr 10, 2026
Press Release
Transfiguración (Transfiguration)
The period from Tristan. written in 1903 to that of The Magic Mountain of 1924, was an intensely creative time in the intellectual life of Thomas Mann. It resembled an ellipsis that travelled through an epoch and capsized in a sea that shook the foundations and, as Kubin believed, invited us to dance the “macabre dance of principles”. Mann was a priviledged witness of this time. Buddenbrook was a veritable history lesson, the subject of which was none other than the 19^th^ century German bourgeoisie, subjected now to a difficult destiny. In tandem with Fontane, Mann had pointed to the journey in which he obsered how pessimism lodged in the conscience of the German bourgeoisie. Lukacs wiould realise the political-ideological implications of such an attitude.
In this context Mann's Tristan has a special significance. Written as a novella it shows us a change in narrative register, far from the history lesson and open to a fantasy from which questions…
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