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| Author | Mann T. |
| Title | Volshebnaja gora |
| Description | The Magic Mountain (1924) is a monumental philosophical novel by the German writer Thomas Mann. It tells the story of the young engineer Hans Castorp, who arrives at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin. Instead of the planned three weeks, he stays there for seven years after signs of illness are discovered, gradually sinking into an isolated world. High on the mountain, life follows its own rhythm: the days resemble one another, the patients live outside ordinary rules, and the sense of reality begins to blur. The characters speak about life and death, illness and health, progress, politics and human nature. The main opponents in these debates are Settembrini, a defender of humanism and Enlightenment ideals, and Naphta, a cynical advocate of Jesuit thought. Together they embody a conflict between European ideas. Thomas Mann was a German writer, essayist, master of intellectual prose, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publisher | AST |
| Pages | 869 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 978-5-17-112642-1 |