19. “Coming to Terms with Richard Wagner,” in Thomas Mann, Pro and Contra Wagner, tr. Allan Blunden, ed. Patrick Carnegy (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985), 45, footnote: “There can be little doubt that this is the ‘little tract …’ whose composition … is assigned to Gustav von Aschenbach.” Anthony Heilbut, in Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), 249, writes: “This is the essay Aschenbach/Mann composes while on the beach … The result seems contradictory: a decadent occasion prompting a neo-classical manifesto.”