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.
Author: Thomas Mann
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/01/1996
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 720
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.26w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780679772873
Language: English
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