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A varázshegy by Thomas Mann
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A varázshegy (original 1924; edition 1981)

by Thomas Mann, Klára Szőllősy

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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.… (more)
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Title:A varázshegy
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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1924)

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Very much enjoyed ( )
  k6gst | Mar 6, 2024 |
Lido, novamente, em novembro 23 ( )
  Correaf | Jan 16, 2024 |
Items of note from The Magic Mountain:
* Descriptions of food and meals
* Snow
* Instructions on how to properly wrap yourself in a blanket
* People with diseased lungs smoking, indoors, in a facility for the treatment of tuberculosis
* Characters with baldly "symbolic" names
* Several "old world blowhards" each "with an axe to grind" (as per https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126041.An_Incomplete_Education if my memory holds)
* Philosophical discussion circa 1915
Good for a long train ride (or a daily train commute).
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  audient_void | Jan 6, 2024 |
"The Magic Mountain" is a novel written by German author Thomas Mann, first published in 1924. The story revolves around Hans Castorp, a young and ordinary engineer who visits his tubercular cousin at a Swiss sanatorium in Davos. Initially planning to stay for only three weeks, Hans ends up staying for seven years due to his own health concerns.

Set against the backdrop of pre-World War I Europe, the novel explores complex themes such as time, illness, and the intellectual currents of the time. The sanatorium becomes a microcosm of society, and Mann uses it as a platform to delve into the philosophical and cultural debates of the period. The characters engage in discussions ranging from the nature of time to the clash between the conservative past and the progressive future.

The novel is known for its dense and intellectual narrative, with Mann incorporating elements of the Bildungsroman genre (a novel that focuses on the moral and psychological growth of the main character). "The Magic Mountain" is considered a classic of German literature and a significant work in European literature, winning Thomas Mann the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. ( )
  Peter_MacTroy | Dec 17, 2023 |
I could write a much more detailed review but my initial response to the end is, "Was ist passiert????"

This would be a Bildungsroman but for the end. ( )
  Jeanne.Laure | Oct 3, 2023 |
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...mainly because its story as a story is less interesting and its subject-matter is fuller of thought but poorer in feeling...
added by vibesandall | editLiverpool Daily Post (Jun 22, 1927)
 

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Mann, Thomasprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Łukowski, JanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Byatt, A.S.Introductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Caro, HerbertTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Castelló, DavidTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Colorni, RenataTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Crescenzi, LucaEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Driessen, HansTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Fonseca, GonzaloIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Giachetti-Sorteni, BiceTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hawinkels, PéTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kaila, KaiTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kramsztyk, JózefTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lowe-Porter, H. T.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Marques, BernardoCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mattson, EllenAfterwordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Noble, PeterNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Rosoman, LeonardIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Wallenström, UlrikaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Winter, G.A. vonAfterwordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Wood, MichaelIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Woods, John E.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Курелла, В.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Станевич, В.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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The story of Hans Castorp, which we would here set forth, not on his own account, for in him the reader will make acquaintance with a simple-minded though pleasing young man, but for the sake of the story itself, which seems to us highly worth telling – though it must needs be borne in mind, in Hans Castorp's behalf, that it is his story, and not every story happens to everybody – this story, we say, belongs to the long ago; it is already, so to speak, covered with historical mould, and unquestionably to be presented in the tense best suited to a narrative out of the depth of the past.
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Well, about the skin. What do you want to hear about your sensory sheath? You know, don't you, that it is your outside brain - ontogenetically the same as that apparatus of the so-called higher centres up there in your cranium? The central nervous system is nothing but a modification of the outer skin-layer; among the lower animals the distinction between central and peripheral doesn't exist, they smell and taste with their skin, it is the only sensory organ they have. Must be rather nice – if you can put yourself in their place. On the other hand, in such highly differentiated forms of life as you and I are, the skin has fallen from its high estate; it has to confine itself to feeling ticklish; that is to say, to being simply a protective and registering apparatus - but devilishly on the qui vive for anything that tries to come too close about the body. It even puts our feelers – the body hairs, which are nothing but hardened skin cells - and they get wind of the approach of whatever it is, before the skin is touched. Just between ourselves, it is quite possible that this protecting and defending function of the skin extends beyond the physical. Do you know what makes you go red and pale?
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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.

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