(H/B) THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN

Παρουσίαση

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.
Acclaimed translator John E. Woods has given us the definitive English version of Mann’s masterpiece. A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction
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Chronology
Foreword
- Arrival
- The Baptismal Bowl / Grandfather in his two forms
- The Shadow of Respectability
- A Necessary Purchase
- Eternal Soup and Sudden Clarity
- Changes
- A Stroll by the Shore