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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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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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Magic mountain (Set 2 Volumes)(Chinese Edition)
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Sichuan Literature & Art Publishing House, 2017
ISBN 10: 7541145475
ISBN 13: 9787541145476
New
Hardcover
Seller: liu xing, Nanjing, JS, China
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
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