by Thomas Mann · Fischer Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783436007911
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«Der Zauberberg» (The Magic Mountain) is the novel by Thomas Mann, published by Fischer Verlag in paperback (760 pages, in German).
Hans Castorp, a young German from the bourgeoisie, goes to a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps to visit a sick cousin and ends up staying there for seven years. Among patients, doctors and conversations, the novel portrays the crisis of European society before the First World War and reflects on time, illness and death.
Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The novel was originally published in 1924; the present Fischer Verlag edition is from 1967.
For readers of European literary classics and novels with a philosophical background.
Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modern versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.
