The Magic Mountain
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental...
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In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679772873 (0679772871)
ASIN: 679772871
Publish date: October 1st 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 706
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Philosophy,
German Literature,
Nobel Prize,
Germany
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IntroductionForewordTranslator's Note--The Magic MountainThe Making of 'The Magic Mountain'
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