by Thomas Mann · Lectorum Pubns · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401812552
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The Magic Mountain is a novel by German writer Thomas Mann, published in 1924. Considered one of the most important works of 20th-century literature, it tells the story of Hans Castorp, a young man who visits his cousin at a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps and ends up staying there for seven years. Through Castorp's experiences, Mann explores themes such as illness, death, time, love, and the decline of European society before World War I.
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.
