The magic mountain
Book - 1996
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.
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Vintage International
1996.
- Edition
- 1st Vintage International ed
- Language
- English
German - Item Description
- Originally published (in hardcover): New York : Knopf, 1995.
"A novel." - Physical Description
- xii, 706 p. ; 25 cm
- ISBN
- 9780679772873
0679772871 - Main Author
- Other Authors
New translation of Mann's classic novel. (Nov.) Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information.
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.
Review by Publisher Summary 2In 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.