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This year's Frankfurt Book Fair, so far: sparkling. Which is the thing about Frankfurt. Leipzig is more intimate, more cozy, and arguably the readings are far better organized, both for the authors and the public - but Frankfurt has the glitz and the sheer quantity. There are literaly more new books in one spot than anywhere else in the world, from
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I have to admit to a Mann family "phase" in my late teens, mostly due to a somewhat embarrassing attachment to Klaus, so the thought of Thomas sounding like Feuchtwanger's wife cracks me up probably more than it should.
Glad you're enjoying the fair!
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The Thomas sounds like Marta thing is especially funny because Marta, like Lion F., was a Bavarian from Munich and soundling like it (as she grew very old, there are lot of recordings), in stark contrast to the son-of-Lübeck vowels of Thomas M....
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I defend myself by pointing to the fact that I was eighteen. *g* (Although I also had a crush on EM Forster at that point, and that's quite a bit weirder.)
And I liked Heinrich, too, although I never got around to reading Der Untertan. I probably mentioned that my knowledge of German literature is pretty much nonexistent. That's what being an Anglist does to you.
If Klaus is Peter, it would make Erika Nathan (complete with daddy hero worship as opposed to younger sibling's rebellion). Does this make Gustaf Gründgens into Heidi?
... That would throw a very different light on Heidi!
Speaking of Daddy worship: one of the franchise products of Heroes has revealed Papa Petrelli's name, and it's - Arthur. If that's official someone is being insanely funny in the writers' room.
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The more I think about it, the more Klaus Mann as Peter Petrelli works. He wants to save the world! He brings people together! (Err, tries to get other exiles to write for Die Sammlung when dear old dad makes a fuss already.) And I can so see Klaus jump from a building on the maybe chance he can fly, too. Though the co-dependency on Erika was somewhat more one sided, i.e. she dealt with his death better than Nathan with Peter's supposed ones, but still, Erika as Nathan works, too. Somewhat confusingly, though, Nelly is Meredith. Certainly the Petrellis and the Manns are a match in dysfunctionality ( ... )
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I'd even say this is one of the few instances where the Petrellis are outbid, although they of course also have fewer members, which seems to lead to (slightly) fewer issues.
...and now I want someone to write the AU where the Manns have superpowers.
I wonder, would that count as historical fantasy, or would it be RPF?
In other news: Arthur? *dies* *in a good way*
Most appropriate name ever. These writers clearly have a wicked sense of humour. (I wonder if that would make Peter a more functional Mordred?)
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(And here I had cast Kaito as Lancelot...)
(Though really: Angela is so not a Guinevre...)
Manns with superpowers: depends which family members you use. Walter Scott said 60 years distance counts as a historical novel, which means that anything less is RPF.*g*
Dysfunctionality competition: true, the lack of Petrellis puts them as a disadvantage there. Though for all we know Arthur could have had two sisters committing suicide and a surpressed homosexuality, too...
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*g* This is rapidly turning into Flowers in the Attic.
I meant more that their relationship was rather strained, but personality-wise, Linderman would probably be a much better Mordred.
As for Angela: I'm wrecking my mind as to women that were somewhat more independently powerful in the Arthurian Legends, but can't really come up with anyone besides Morgan perhaps. So, back to the incest on that one.
Kaito as Lancelot is hilarious, though. And Charles Deveaux as Merlin?
Though for all we know Arthur could have had two sisters committing suicide and a surpressed homosexuality, too...
Not with Daniel around, I'd say. The sisters is of course possible, though, and I'd love for a talented, but not quite as famous Petrelli uncle to show up.
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