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<p><span>Three Klauses walk into a bar…</span></p><p><span>This episode centers on literary wunderkind/prodigal son Klaus Mann’s attack on Nazi Germany (and an ex-lover, and possibly his dad, the canonical novelist Thomas Mann), in the form of the 1936 novel </span><em>Mephisto</em><span>. We discuss the film adaptation, what it means to compare demons to the Nazis, the book’s relationship to Goethe’s Faust, and the politics of race in the novel/film. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span>-Klaus Mann, </span><a href="projekt-gutenberg.org/mannk/mephisto/mephisto.…; rel="nofollow"><em>Mephisto: Ein Roman einer Karriere</em></a></p><p><span>-Toni Morrison, </span><a href="hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674673779…; rel="nofollow"><em>Playing in the Dark</em></a></p><p><span>-</span><a href="theguardian.com/profile/farayi-mungazi"; rel="nofollow">Farayi Mungazi</a><span> and </span><a href="theguardian.com/profile/olivia-marks-woldman&q…; rel="nofollow">Olivia Marks-Woldman</a><span> “</span><a href="theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/27/blac…; rel="nofollow">Black people were Hitler’s victims too – that must not be forgotten” </a></p><p><span>-</span><a href="encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/afro…; rel="nofollow">“Nazi Persecution of Black People in Germany,”</a><span> </span><em>Holocaust Encyclopedia </em><span>(</span><em>United States Holocaust Memorial Museum</em></p><p><span>-Colm Tóibín: </span><a href="lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n21/colm-toibin/i-coul…; rel="nofollow">“I Could Sleep With All Of Them”</a><span> (On Mann family dynamics in </span><em>London Review of Books</em><span>)</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
