Abstract
Thomas Mann often spoke of his interest in James Joyce, and he also wrote of reading secondary material about him. Such remarks have prompted a few critics and scholars-Peter Egri in particular-to write extensive comparisons on the two writers. Egri himself has written a lengthy essay in which he surveys the comprehensive contributions that have treated Mann's relationship to Joyce.' And yet Thomas Mann himself, despite being fluent in English, claimed not to be able to read Joyce in the original.2 To discover the exact nature of Mann's interest in Joyce is valuable both as a caveat to comparative critics and for what it reveals about Mann's reading habits.3 The comparative criticism on the Mann-Joyce relationship was first encouraged by Mann himself, especially in his short book Die Entstehung des Doktor Faustus in which he praised Harry Levin'sJamesJoyce and cited five
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