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Book

The magic mountain : a novel

Call Number

  • FICTION MANN (CEN)

Edition

1st Vintage International ed.

Publication Information

New York : Vintage International, 1996, c1995.

Physical Description

xii, 706 p. ; 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Notes

From cover: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Added Authors

John E Woods

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