The magic mountain / Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter ; illustrated by Gonzalo Fonseca.
A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity. 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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- Physical Description: xviii, 724 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Franklin Center, Pa. : Franklin Library, [1981]
- Copyright: ©1981
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General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. Translation of: Der Zauberberg. |
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Subject: | Sanatoriums > Fiction. Germany > Fiction. |
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