by Thomas Mann · Unidad Editorial. S.A · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788481301625
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«La montaña mágica» is a novel by Thomas Mann published by Unidad Editorial in paperback (784 pages, in Spanish).
A young engineer, Hans Castorp, goes up to the Berghof sanatorium in the Swiss Alps to accompany his sick cousin for a few weeks and ends up staying seven years. Among doctors and patients, he encounters clashing ideologies and falls in love, while the novel explores illness, death and Europe before 1914.
1999 edition in two volumes, with a prologue by Javier Alfaya, from the «100 joyas del milenio» collection by El Mundo and Millennium. It was originally published in 1924 as Der Zauberberg.
For readers of European classics and fiction with a philosophical background, and for those who want to discover Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize in Literature.
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.
