The New Yorker, December 13, 1941 P. 31
PROFILE of Thomas Mann. Because the German Thomas Mann and the French Andre Gide have acquired similar cultlike followings, because each is the most conspicuos literary talent of his nation, but above all, because both have shown a certain interest in the same moribidezza, comparisons between the two have been inevitable. When, a few years ago, translations of "Buddenbrooks," and "The Magic Mountain" appeared in France, many readers were of two minds about Mann. Some Parisians thought he was simply bad Gide, while others merely thought he was as bad as Gide. Gide himself thought Mann was like no one else.
