A Frankfurt School student novel thinly disguised Hendrik de Man
Evidence
- So Professor Gladys Meyer of Barnard has suggested in a letter to me. Professor Meyer, who was a student at the Institut in the pre-emigration period, has written a novel, The Magic Circle (New York, 1944), in which de Man is thinly disguised as Adriaan de Barenne, one of the main characters. Pollock, when I spoke with him in March, 1969, denied the idea that de Man was deliberately brought to Frankfurt for the purpose Professor Meyer claims. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1126
Categorization
- CANDY: A fun, tweetable curiosity: the Frankfurt School appears in a 1944 novel with a thinly disguised Hendrik de Man as a main character.
- QUESTION: Professor Meyer’s claim remains unresolved — Pollock denied de Man was brought to Frankfurt for the purpose she claims. What purpose did she allege?