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The house Thomas Mann described as \u201cso completely my own\u201d could be torn down.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mann, in 1941, at his Pacific Palisades home, with his wife, Katia, and two of their grandchildren.<\/p><\/div>\n

Thomas Mann\u2019s house\u00a0in Pacific Palisades, California, is up for sale. The news came as a surprise: the house, designed by the modernist architect J. R. Davidson, was believed to have a reliable owner with Chester Lappen, the lawyer who bought it from Mann in 1953, and his heirs. As late as 2012, they\u2019d expressed no interest in selling. Things have changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mann, who escaped the Nazis for America in 1938, had the house\u00a0built to his cultured specifications. Davidson, Mann\u2019s fellow countryman in exile, called the style \u201cnostalgic German.\u201d Photos of its flat roof, grand windows, and unadorned pillars offer an effect that\u2019s warmer than the era\u2019s Southern California modernism. But for the few who can afford it, 1550 San Remo Drive may have more worth as an address than as a building. The home has been marketed as a potential teardown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreate your dream estate,\u201d the real-estate listing reads, with no mention of Doctor Faustus<\/em><\/a> (1947) and The Holy Sinner<\/em><\/a> (1951), the exquisite nightmares Mann created there. Christopher Hawthorne, the Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u2019 architecture critic, spoke to Joyce Rey, the seller\u2019s real-estate agent. She said the house\u2019s value was in its land, not its history or architecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Germany has greeted the sale announcement with consternation\u2014and shock at Los Angeles\u2019s lack of interest in protecting cultural patrimony. Some have demanded that the German government purchase the property. The emotional response is understandable: while most of Mann\u2019s existing residences in Germany have been protected and restored, options for protecting historic buildings are restricted in Los Angeles. And clearly, as a group, the Angelenos don\u2019t share Germany\u2019s passion for discursive, symbolic novels.<\/p>\n

Mann himself would\u2019ve been devastated by the news. Though he wrote powerfully about the dangers of romanticism and nostalgia, he suffered from those same forces. After he moved back to Europe in 1952, he was known to long for his California sanctuary. The patio, the ocean, the seven palm trees on his property\u2014\u201cthe house was so completely my own,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Still, he may not have been surprised. Mann had already lost one grand estate by the time he arrived in California, and Doctor Faustus<\/em>, the late great novel of his exile, is haunted by the loss of homes both past and present.<\/p>\n

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Born into a well-off family and gifted with early literary success, Mann was able to commission a luxurious villa on Poschingerstrasse, in Munich, in 1913. He lived there with his family until 1933, when accusations that he was an enemy of the state overtook him. When the Mann family left for a lecture tour (in honor of Richard Wagner), the German police seized his house\u00a0and expropriated everything inside\u2014art, furnishings, Mann\u2019s many creature comforts.<\/p>\n

From abroad Mann watched in despair as his own dispossession became the self-imposed fate of his country. Faustus<\/em> is written under literal fire: the narrator, Serenus Zeitblom, relates the story of the composer Adrian Leverk\u00fchn while the Allies are bombing around him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sat here in my study, turning ashen, shaking like the walls, doors, and windowpanes of my house\u2014and writing this account of a man\u2019s life with a trembling hand,\u201d Zeitblom says.<\/p>\n

By Faustus<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>end, Zeitblom is huddled in a \u201chermit\u2019s cell,\u201d like Dostoyevsky\u2019s underground man. Domesticity has been eradicated; the comforts of a grand home and culture are no longer possible. \u201cThe war is lost, and that means more than a lost campaign, it means that we<\/em> in fact are lost\u2014lost, our cause and soul, our faith and our history,\u201d Zeitblom says. The country\u2019s glittering cities, birthplaces of Goethe and Schiller and Heine, lie in waste.<\/p>\n

Part of what makes Faustus <\/em>so powerful is the way Mann delineates the social and cultural devastation of these cities and these homes. More than any of his other novels save Buddenbrooks<\/em>, Faustus<\/em> is obsessed with interiors: rooms, floor plans, furniture. An example is the loving care with which Mann inventories the Schildknapp home\u2019s study in Munich. It\u2019s \u201cwainscoted, with uncarpeted plank floors and stamped leather covering the walls beneath the beamed ceiling, and with pictures of saints in the low-vaulted embrasure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dining rooms, villas, and castles abound in Faustus<\/em>, at least until the bombs start to fall. And once the bombing begins, the overwhelming destruction will go unmourned. \u201c[Leipzig] is, I sadly hear, only a heap of rubble and an immeasurable wealth of literary and educational material is now the spoil of destruction\u2014a heavy loss not only for us Germans, but also for a whole world that cares about culture,\u201d Zeitblom writes. \u201cThat world, however, is apparently willing\u2014whether blindly or correctly, I dare not decide\u2014to take that loss into the bargain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Los Angeles is willing to place another of Mann\u2019s losses into the bargain. It may be tempting to draw parallels to our current political climate\u2014and it\u2019s difficult to imagine Mann, who abandoned the U.S. during McCarthy\u2019s communist witch hunt, approving of Donald Trump\u2019s proposals for a Mexican-border wall and Muslim travel ban\u2014but the hunger for real estate, and its flattening effect on culture, is a global phenomenon. In 2015, the reconstructed villa on Mann\u2019s former Munich plot sold for more than thirty\u00a0million euros. The novelist\u2019s former address in Munich has passed through a series of celebrities, heiresses, and now, entrepreneurs and financiers. The German press described the latest buyer as an unknown quantity\u2014a business heir and freight-car investor whose name just happens to be Thomas Mann.<\/p>\n

Caille Millner is the author of<\/em> The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification. Her work has appeared in the<\/em> Los Angeles Review of Books,<\/em> Hyperallergic,<\/em> Zyzzyva,<\/em> and<\/em> Joyland,\u00a0and she contributed to\u00a0Greil Marcus\u2019s anthology<\/em> A New Literary History of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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