Bøker av Hermann J. Weigand

Presents a picture of the ideals of courtly love in Europe in the latter half of the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth centuries. A long chapter on Parzival focuses especially on the introduction of Christian themes and changing ideas of the compatibility of love and marriage.

Praised highly by Mann himself, Weigand's book is an essential piece of criticism on Mann's monumental novel. In his study of The Magic Mountain Weigand comments on the novel's genre and organisation before dissecting the themes of disease and mysticism, Mann's use of irony, and other aspects of this masterpiece of German literature.