The Magician, published in 2021, is a novel by Colm Tóibín. It is a fictional biography of German Nobel laureate Thomas Mann. In a review for The New York Times, writer Jay Parini assessed The Magician as a "work of huge imaginative sympathy" and praised its "expansive and subtle rhythms" as satisfying and elegant. Lucy Hughes-Hallett of The Guardian recognised the work as "enormously ambitious" and felt Tóibín "exquisitely balanced" the private and public facets of Mann's life. Hughes-Hallet reserved special praise for Tóibín's "chilling account of his conversation with the financier and newspaper proprietor Eugene Meyer".
Adaptations (1)
The Magician was adapted into a 2026 film.
Fatherland2026 · film · 82 min · dir. Pawel Pawlikowski · IMDb ↗IMDb7.390MetacriticIn 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
