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A fact from A Man and His Dog (narrative) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 November 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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The result was: promoted by RoySmith (talk) 15:47, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
ALT1: ... that Peter Handke called Thomas Mann a "terribly bad writer" for his narrative A Man and His Dog? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20120626160850/https://www.zeit.de/1989/10/wer-einmal-versagt-im-schreiben-hat-fuer-immer-versagt [in German] [in German: "Wer dem nachfolgt, ist für mich schon verloren. Gerade vor ein paar Tagen habe ich wieder „Herr und Hund" von ihm gelesen. Da ist gleich der erste Satz so, daß man spürt, der das schreibt, ist sich dessen gewiß, eine Gemeinde zu haben, die auf seinen bestimmten Tonfall hört. Also er fängt nie wirklich an, sondern schreibt in dem Bewußtsein, daß er der Thomas Mann ist. Das ist doch verwerflich. Ein schrecklich schlechter Schriftsteller ist das."
Overall: @WatkynBassett: Good article. Will have to approve in good faith due to foreign language sources. personally I find atl0 the best. Onegreatjoke (talk) 15:28, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the helpful copy-edit Ravenpuff! I just have one qualm: Do you have a source for the work being a novella? In A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann, which I deem to be quite authoritative, it is listed as a narrative. WatkynBassett (talk) 19:12, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]