„За кого бие камбаната“ и „Вълшебната планина“: дългът на Хемингуей към Томас Ман
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “The Magic Mountain”: Hemingway’s Debt to Thomas Mann

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the extensive thematic, structural, and symbolic parallels between Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain”, arguing that the similarities are too numerous and profound to be coincidental. William Adair traces how Mann’s novel provided Hemingway with a narrative model for transforming abundant material into an integrated, encyclopedic work. Central points of comparison include the ‘magic mountain’ setting as a space of accelerated education, the interplay of realism and dreamlike states, the relativity of time as both theme and narrative device, and the protagonists’ shared trajectory from heightened self-awareness toward an honorable, sacrificial death. The analysis further examines the novels’ engagement with family dynamics, knightly romance and fairy-tale motifs and their underlying meditations on cultural mortality on the eve of war.

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