In this narrative gem, Thomas Mann plays his dangerous and impossible game, and he makes surprises come without the reader losing his amazement! This is a heavenly novel intertwined with what is earthly, until the reader is confused while holding the book between heaven and earth! The value of sin here is that, with a little magic, it is the best of virtues. You, the reader, will feel that you are the target and the one hidden between the lines. This will happen when you get lost between the words "pain," "pleasure," "abyss," and "tranquility." This is a journey that never gets boring; In all directions together at once, forever, and a little beyond.
