Tonio Creger through the eyes of writers and mathematicians
Evgeny Berkovich In the book “The Reasoning of the Apolitical”, completed in 1918, Thomas Mann recalls one hetting student, who, after the writer's lecture, approached him and said in an excited voice: “ You, I hope, know if you know this, is not“ Buddenbroki ”express your essence, your essence is“ Tonio Creger ”! And I said that I knew this ”(Mann, 2009, p. 90) 1 .