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Description
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... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Hans Castorp: He's the main character
- Joachim Ziemssen: He's the cousin of Hans Castorp.
- Behrens & Krokowski: They are the doctors up there.
- Clavdia Chauchat: It's a girl in the sanatorium wich Hans love's..He's in love with her..
- Settembrini: It's an old pedagog in the sanatorium, he often discuses with Hans and he's cousin about all kind of stuff.
First Sentence
AN ORDINARY YOUNG MAN was on his way from his hometown of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the canton of Graubunden.
Table of Contents
I
Arrival
Number 34
At the restaurant
II
About crystalnis & the two looks of his grandfather
At Tienappel familly & about the moral feeling of Hans Castorp
III
Caste sadness
The breakfast
Raillery.The saint communion.Interrupted joy
Satan
Sagacity
A word moreover
Of course, a woman!
Mr.Albin
Satan is making disgraceing proposals
IV
Necessary marketing
Digression over the time idea
Trying to talk in french
Political suspect!
Hippe
Analysis
Waverings & reflections
Discussions at the table
A worry that grows. About the two grandparents & the walk with the boat in the twilight
The thermometer
V
The endless soup & the flashing revelation
"God, i can see!"
Freedom
The mercury has whims
Encyclopaedia
Clayer
Studies
Macabre dance
Valpurgia's night
VI
Changes
Another one!
About God's empire & about salvation misunderstanded
Outbreak of anger & something else, very unpleasant
Refutable atac
Operationes spirituales
Snow
As a soldier & courageous
VII
Walk on the beach
Mynheer Peeperkorn
Vingt et un
Mynheer Peeperkorn(continuation)
Mynheer Peeperkorn(end)
The big stupidity
Profoundness of harmony
Doubt among the gravest
The big petulance
Thunderclap
Authors & Contributors
- Thomas Mann (Author)
Awards
- Nobel prize (1929: Literature)
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