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Yes I read it.
It has not a single reference to fascism in the 1920s.
The Weimar Republic was embattled primarily by monarchists and socialists/ communists; the NSDAP had not yet risen to power and not established fascism in Germany.
The Dachau concentration camp was opened in 1933, a decade after the book was published.
Again, you have not talked about anything actually in the book that relates to fascism.
So is Mein Kampf not fascist because it predates 1933 too?
Get out of here with this lazy shit, Naptha is clearly a fascist in all but name in The Magic Mountain.
Are you claiming The Magic Mountain is a reaction to Mein Kampf, a book that had not been published by then?
Now, this is actually an argument engaging with the material.
It’s been ages since I read the book, can you remind me what Naphtha says and does and how the book critically engages with that.
....no?
So, did Mann know what Adolf would write in his book or what the Nazis would do in the 30s and 40s?
Did he know what Mussolini would get up to in the next decades?
No? Then he couldn’t have reacted to that. So none of that can be relevant to what he had written in 1924.
Now, it’s not unheard of that authors can see the proverbial writing on the wall and anticipate future events to some degree. But to argue that you would also have to actually point to his writing and draw parallels. You can’t just point at later events as proof for what is in the book.
Have you actually read any literary analysis of The Magic Mountain... or like... just read the damn book? Were you not paying attention to the conversations with Naptha and how Hans Castorp changes in his disposition towards them over the course of the novel as WW1 ripens on the limb...? Go read the book again, I will not waste my time handing you things just so you can throw them at the wall like a baby.
Your desire to bifurcate periods of time and development of ideologies into artificial divisions is childish.