$23.80
- Paperback
752 pages
- Release Date
1 October 1996
Summary
This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I.
A brief visit to a Swiss sanatorium becomes a life-altering seven-year odyssey.
Hans Castorp arrives at a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin, intending to stay for just three weeks. But when he falls ill, he remains and is drawn in by the introspection and erudition that define life in the mountains. As his stay ext…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780749386429 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0749386428 |
| Author: | Thomas Mann |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 752 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 1996 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 47mm x 130mm x 199mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
The greatest German novelist of the 20th century
Magnificent… a beautiful, feverish account of obsessive love * Guardian *
Featuring lengthy debates between humanist freemasons and Jews-turned-Catholics, a long love-scene written entirely in French and a brilliant hallucinatory journey down the snowy slopes, it merits multiple readings. A novel for a lifetime not just a rainy afternoon * Guardian *
A monumental writer * Sunday Telegraph *
The greatest German novelist of the 20th century * Spectator *
Mann is Germany’s outstanding modern classic, a decadent representative of the tradition of Goethe and Schiller. With his famous irony, he was up there with Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud, holding together the modern world with a love of art and imagination to compensate for the emptiness left by social and religious collapse. * Independent *
A life-altering book would be The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. It’s really thick and German. I like its sensibility, which is unashamedly intellectual. * Observer *
A masterwork, unlike any other… a delight, comic and profound, a new form of language, a new way of seeing
Comparisons arise with The Waste Land, published two years earlier and also concerned to exhibit the futility of a way of life which had led to the horrors of the First World War. But while T. S. Eliot’s poem is a pared-down epic of resonances and allusions, Mann’s novel is a full-blown exploration, playing seemingly endless variations on the theme * Sunday Telegraph *
The most life-changing novel * Stylist *
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is widely regarded as the greatest German novelist of the twentieth century. His first novel, Buddenbrooks, was a huge success and led to a Nobel Prize in Literature. However, when the Nazis came to power, his works were blacklisted and burned, and Mann was stripped of his citizenship. He spent the latter part of his life in exile in the United States and Switzerland. His other major novels include The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus, and Joseph and His Brothers.
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