The Magic Mountain [Der Zauberberg] - Hardcover

Thomas Mann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394434587 ISBN 13: 9780394434582

Publisher: Knopf, 1966

Synopsis

Set in the dreamlike world of a Swiss health sanatorium, here is a story of a young man's enlightenment through his encounters with sickness and death; an elegy to the romanticism of the European bourgeoisie in the days prior World War I.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Review:

Though surrounded by the beauty of the Swiss Alps, Hans Castorp is an unwitting captive in a tuberculosis sanitarium, under sentence of impending death. Originally admitted for a three week respite, he is betrayed by an X-ray which finds a small, dark patch on his lung. Thus begins a seven-year recuperation. Struck by the many other patients who seem to have resigned themselves, Castorp begins to question his purpose. As he listens to the stories and advice of other inmates and considers his own course of evolution, he realizes that here, in the midst of the dying, he has found life.

Review:

... falls just short of being that work upon which the thoughtful wanderer among contemporary perplexities may build a serene, untroubled, understanding acceptance of life. But it goes far on the way. -- The New York Times Book Review, John W. Crawford

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1966
• ISBN 10: 0394434587
• ISBN 13: 9780394434582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 729