Abstract
ABSTRACT This is a study of the rewards of shared visions at the highest level of culture. In part as a result of six visits to Budapest, Thomas Mann, arguably the greatest writer of the last century, established friendly and productive relations with many of Hungary’s cultural luminaries, chief among them György (Georg) Lukács, Károly (Karl) Kerényi, and Dezső Kosztolányi. From the literary critic, authority on mythology and religion, and poet-novelist, respectively, he obtained insights that, by his own account, contributed to the advancement of his work and a deepening of his self-understanding; from Mann’s writings and from personal, especially epistolary, contacts, the Hungarians drew scholarly and creative inspirations that opened new paths for their work. Without being fully conscious of it, they and Mann wrote an important chapter in the intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe.
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