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Bashan and I

by Thomas Mann

First published: 1919
Pages: 89

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Introduction And Foreword
2:52
Bashan Puts In His Appearance
22:20
How We Acquired Bashan
17:34
A Few Items Regarding Bashan's Character And Manner Of Life Part 1
25:16
A Few Items Regarding Bashan's Character And Manner Of Life Part 2
28:03
The Hunting-Grounds Part 1
34:27
The Hunting-Grounds Part 2
29:47
The Chase Part 1
30:49
The Chase Part 2
31:54
The Chase Part 3
30:06

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About this book

Thomas Mann set aside the great themes of his fiction to write a small, affectionate idyll about his short-haired pointer. Over a series of walks through the fields and riverbanks near his Munich home, the narrator studies Bashan's moods, his hunting instincts, his jealousies, and his uncomplicated delight at each morning's outing. Written in the closing months of the First World War, the book turns away from history toward an unhurried, almost timeless world where the only real decision is which way to go at the garden gate. Mann's precise, tender attention makes a companion animal feel fully knowable without ever tipping into sentimentality. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available here.

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Thomas Mann

Mann finished Buddenbrooks at twenty-five, a chronicle of four generations of a Lubeck merchant family modelled closely enough on his own that the city took offence, and the Nobel committee cited it above everything else when it gave him the prize in 1929.