by Thomas Mann · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467211511
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The Magic Mountain is a novel by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1924. The story takes place in a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, where young Hans Castorp visits his cousin. What was planned as a short stay becomes a seven-year immersion in an isolated world, where time seems to stand still and the characters reflect on life, death, illness, and early 20th-century European society. The novel is a profound exploration of the human condition and a portrait of the decadence of an era.
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.
