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- George Will - Newsweek,
2/22/93
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ZIN Product Number: 10180816
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 Format: Hardcover, 700 pages
Publisher: Knopf Alfred A
ISBN: 0679441832
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This is a new translation of the German novel. It is "the story of Hans Castorp, a modern everyman who spends seven years in an Alpine sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, finally leaving to become a soldier in World War I." (Libr J)
| | | | From The Publisher
Hans Castorp - on the verge of an intense flirtation with Clavdia Chauchat, a married woman and feverish fellow patient - is perched high above the world, dozing in his splendid lounge chair at the International Sanatorium Berghof, swaddled in blankets against the Alpine chill. To his surprise and secret delight, he will remain on this "magic mountain" for seven years - removed from the "real" world, but irresistibly drawn into the sanatorium's own complex, vertiginoussociety, which in Mann's hands becomes a microcosm for Western civilization and its interior life on the eve of the First World War. Flooded with feeling, with powerful evocations of disease, with the glories of the natural world and inklings of the supernatural, The Magic Mountain is equally remarkable for Mann's treatment of time - the "flatland time" of healthy, active people and the "inelastic present" of the "people up here," for whom illness is a lifelong career. Mann is a master at drawing dazzling characters with the finest irony: Settembrini, the impassioned Italian liberal, and Naphta, the caustic Jewish Jesuit, whose opposing worldviews trap them in a grotesque duel; Mynheer Peeperkorn, the enormously wealthy Dutch planter whose garrulous "personality" all but overwhelms his fellow patients; the blustery Director Behrens and subtle Dr. Krokowski, whose combined energies rule the day and the night of the Berghof; Clavdia Chauchat, the elusive Russian beauty whose slinking charms can awaken forgotten love; and, of course, Hans Castorp himself - the ordinary made extraordinary - whose interior journey leads him out into a blinding snowstorm and a stunning, fleeting moment of revelation; Hans, who is last seen on a battlefield of the Great War - the very conflict toward which every word of the novel has been magnetized.
| | | | Annotation
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The story of a simple minded young man in the years before the Grear War.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:
Absolute timeless masterpiece
-- Scott Henkels, March 30, 2001
Also Recommended: The Confessions of Felix Krull-Confidence Man by Thomas Mann;Doctor Faustus by T. Mann;
Did he deserve the Nobel Prize or what!
-- Shira Aliza Phillips, a high school student in NYC, April 7, 1999
Decay
-- Uwe, March 7, 2000
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
This large-scale novel set in a sanatorium charts the ills of Western civilization, while offering hope for the future
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