The Magic Mountain
Set in the dreamlike world of a Swiss health sanatorium, here is a story of a young man's enlightenment through his encounters with sickness and death; an elegy to the romanticism of the European bourgeoisie in the days prior World War I.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Set in the dreamlike world of a Swiss health sanatorium, here is a story of a young man's enlightenment through his encounters with sickness and death; an elegy to the romanticism of the European bourgeoisie in the days prior World War I.From the Trade Paperback edition.
show less
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394434582 (0394434587)
Publish date: July 27th 1966
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (NYC)
Pages no: 729
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Philosophy,
German Literature,
Nobel Prize,
Germany
Books of 1916: Part Three: Natsume Soseki and James Joyce Light and Darkness by Natsume Soseki This unfinished novel, which was serialized in a newspaper, was Natsume Soseki’s last work, as he died of an ulcer in 1916. As the story begins, the main character Tsuda is going to have an operation o...
Написано мастерски. Конечно, простецкие товарищи вроде меня всё же в глубине души хотели бы, чтобы хоть где-нибудь хоть что-нибудь было им высказано напрямую, сформулировано чётко и исчерпано до конца. Но не приходится сомневаться, что любая попытка добавить разъяснений непоправимо подорвала бы цело...
A Bildungsroman, or novel of initiation, as noted by Thomas Mann himself, concisely written and challenging. Mann spends the first book setting the backdrop and then focuses gradually more and more on his characters; on the way that each of them thinks and acts, thus creating fleshed out personaliti...
The book is very long and at times a bit of a slog. It needs to be because that is part of the point. The main character a completely ordinary man comes up to a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps for a three week visit and ends up staying for seven years.The book is an allegory of a diseased Europe imme...
IntroductionForewordTranslator's Note--The Magic MountainThe Making of 'The Magic Mountain'
Log in with Facebook 
