With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an 'ordinary young man' who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.
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Seller: liu xing, Nanjing, JS, China
Hardcover. Condition: New. Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub Date: 2017-02-01 Pages: 880 Publisher: sichuan literature and art publishing house the magic mountain is the representative work of Nobel laureate Thomas mann.Novel centered on a hill sanatorium. describes many feudal aristocrat and bourgeois figures of Europe. including a Prussian officer. the Russian ladies. Dutch settlers. Catholic.They are social. Seller Inventory # DO000928