"I preferred to compose The Magic Mountain instead," he declared, "for had I agreed to stay there, I may still be up there now." Keep checking Rotten Tomatoes for updates! This afforded Thomas Mann extensive first-hand information on life in the sanitorium. Be the first one to write a review. plus-circle Add Review. Hans Castrop goes to a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps for a vacation before starting his first real job. It is considered a towering example of the bildungsroman, a novel recounting the main character’s formative years. The Magic Mountain, novel of ideas by Thomas Mann, originally published in German as Der Zauberberg in 1924. It introduces the protagonist, Hans Castorp, the only child of a Hamburg merchant family. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature. Thomas Mann's classic is among the top five to ten of my list of favorite novels, one, like Gravity's Rainbow or Mickelsson's Ghosts, that I will reread every few years or so. The Magic Mountain tells the story of Hans Castorp, a young German Audience Reviews for Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. Thomas Mann (1875–1955) was from Germany. Even Mann didn’t think “The Magic Mountain” would find more than a few hundred readers. Thomas Mann's classic is among the top five to ten of my list of favorite novels, one, like Gravity's Rainbow or Mickelsson's Ghosts, that I will reread every few years or so. A vast intellectual drama of the forces that play upon modern man, The Magic Mountain is set in a sanitorium in the Swiss Alps--a community organized with exclusive reference to ill health At the age of 25, he published his first novel, Buddenbrooks. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of 20th century German literature. The narrative opens in the decade before World War I. His wife, Katia was suffering from tuberculosis and travelled to the recuperation spa at the woodland sanitorium Davos. Thomas Mann tells us this will have to be a very long book, since he wants to tell the story of a person, and a person is built up very slowly by important details of his or her past. What makes The Magic Mountain so difficult to read is Mann's insistence that the reader become part of it. ... Internet Archive Python library 1.2.0.dev4. About Thomas Mann. 50 likes. In 1924, The Magic Mountain was published, and five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Magic Mountain (German: Der Zauberberg) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. The Magic Mountain, as well as being a German myth, is a parody of the Bildungsroman, in which a young man goes out into the world, and discovers his nature through his encounters. Reviews There are no reviews yet. I was a teenager—that is to say, pretty much an unsophisticated jerk—when I first read The Magic Mountain almost 50 years ago, in an undergraduate class …