This story or is it really an essay? Gives us a different view of Thomas Mann - not the great tortured modernist intellectual but just a guy who loves his eccentric and devoted dog - which of the two is more devoted or more eccentric is open to debate. Story not significant because of its ideas but because of how it forms or changes our ideas about Mann. Have to like him more than Eliot and his cats and way more than Nabokov and his butterflies! Author's relations to animals do tell us something about their styles and sensibilities. Eliot austere and indifferent. Nabokov cruel and distant and analytic. Mann? More humane and empathetic than one would at first think.
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