(Published originally on:The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann I finally got round to trying the English translation of "Der Zauberberg" (by H.T. Lowe-Porter). By chance I came upon it in the FNAC bookstore, and I bought it.It's also been recently published the first European Portuguese translation of t...
5 stars for the original in German. 3 stars for the H. T. Lowe-Porter translation.Review originally published in my blog in 2009:http://manuelaantao.blogspot.pt/2009/09/blog-post.htmlI finally got round to trying the English translation of "Der Zauberberg" (by H.T. Lowe-Porter). By chance I came upo...
With a elegant and decadent view over the society, Thomas Mann equals the dead of the consumptive with the dead of a way of life in Europe. Like some books of Sandor Marai, I see the dead of a social class with the war along the story.
At the risk of being labelled a Philistine, I declare that this book is one of the most insufferably boring tomes that has ever made it onto my bedside table. I admit that I only struggled my way through the first 170 pages, but that was enough to convince me that I should not waste any more minutes...
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