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We are delighted to welcome author Morten Høi Jensen and culture journalist Christina Cacouris for a conversation about Jensen's new book, The Master of Contradictions, about Thomas Mann's celebrated 1924 novel The Magic Mountain and why it is still so resonant today.
Jensen and Cacouris will discuss how Mann's writing of the novel, which began in 1913 and ended in 1924, coincided with the devastating years of the First World War and the tumultuous birth of the German Weimar Republic. A cultural conservative when he began writing The Magic Mountain , Mann had become an unlikely defender of democracy by the time he finished it.
About Morten Høi Jensen and Christina Cacouris
Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer and critic. He has contributed to the New York Review of Books , the Wall Street Journal , the Washington Post , The Yale Review, Commonweal , and Liberties: A Journal of Culture and Politics , where he is the European Liaison. Jensen is also the author of A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen , which was published by Yale University Press in 2017.
Christina Cacouris is a journalist, curator, and speaker based in Paris. She is a contributing editor at Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio, where she interviews curators and academics about some of the most prolific and luminary photographers in history. She has lectured at New York City's Cultural Services of the French Embassy, The National Arts Club, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Paris’s Librairie 7L. She has also contributed a new scholarship on photography for London’s National Portrait Gallery. She was a member of the Newswomen’s Club of New York and formerly served as Co-Chair of the Photography Committee at the National Arts Club.